And you love to read, you love to escape, right?
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.
Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.
I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.
The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.
I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.
I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.
I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.
I read everything and anything. I love books.
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
