Youth Reading Quotes

I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters.

One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.