Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.

You can't write if you don't read.

I would read all day if I could.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.