Love of Reading Quotes

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

I'm not a reader myself, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

The printed page was like wine to me.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read!

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

I've always been such a nerd.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Of all things I liked books best.

I've always been a voracious reader.

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.