Reading Exploration Quotes

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a world in which some people read this, and others read that.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

I am very adventurous with authors, but not very with genres.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

I don't think you should limit what you read.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'