Reading Quotes

Shockingly, too many of our children don't read to grade level. Studies show that if a child does not read to grade level by third grade, that child is likely to drop out of school. I believe the love of reading begins at home. We should do all we can to make sure that our children and grandchildren stay in school and graduate. Reading to grade level is an important foundation.

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

~ Sarah Jio

Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the example and help to foster this love of reading in our little ones.

~ Carmela Dutra

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.

~ Annamarie Ralph

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

~ Pat Frank

Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!

~ K. Lamb

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!

~ Jeff Hutchins

Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be afraid of them just because of how they look. You may find they are nice to you if you arenice to them.

~ Jeff Hutchins

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

~ V.c. Andrews

Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see.

~ Betsy Hearne

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

~ Paul Kropp

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

~ Marilyn Jager Adams

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

~ Michael Dirda

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

~ S.a. Tawks

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

~ S.a. Tawks

The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.

~ S.a. Tawks

Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

~ S.a. Tawks

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.

~ S.a. Tawks

Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going back to something that isn't really clear: that avant-garde stuff is hard to read. I'm not defending it, I'm saying that stuff - this is gonna get very abstract - but there's a certain set of magical stuff that fiction can do for us. There's maybe thirteen things, of which who even knows which ones we can talk about. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell Another sensibility like mine exists. Something else feels this way to someone else. So that the reader feels less lonely.

~ David Foster Wallace

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives

~ Neil Gaiman

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

~ Elin Hilderbrand

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

~ W.j. Raymond

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

~ Brandi L. Bates

A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first.

~ Dee Henderson

It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at the same time. It left her with a gorgeous ache, and when she turned the last page of the book and closed the cover, Norah's connection to the writer felt absolute. It was a breathless, consuming rapture....

~ Ellen Meister

Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to explored. People throughout life have more exciting endeavours than others, and that can be the same for stories. It's just a matter of segregating comparisons between the senseless and the thoughtful. The norm and the unbiased. We are what we are. As are stories.

~ Corey Dale-Gardener

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

~ Amy Engel

That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.

~ Catherine Lacey

Reading takes the reader to faraway lands, new cultures, new and exciting adventures; you meet new friends and enemies; it takes the reader from the heights of the imagination to the depths of human emotions; all without taking a single step.

~ Carlos Salinas

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning.

~ Carew Papritz

Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to a crisis by his experiences in Narnia. When you go to Narnia, your worries come with you. Narnia just becomes the place where you work them out and try to resolve them.

~ Levi Grossman

People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in life, and strove through a few hundred engrossing pages to attain this object. They were all noble and generous, and their lives were bright and beautiful. What interesting and delightful moments Irene had passed in their society! They had made her laugh and cry and suffer and rejoice, and had entertained her with the brilliancy of their wit. How dull and colourless real people had appeared beside these heroes and heroines of fiction.

~ Aimée Dostoyevsky

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

~ Lorin Stein

You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my eyes and the home of their prose, you, my only lover, who always move my life, my poetry's pace and rhyme,...I can not disclose the shape of metaphors, nor what they bashfully display behind the robes of their naked source; but you can use the eyes of heart to feel what they are made of. And if it's a tear or a smile I evoke, it means we are human, it means we care and we love. It means we are both beautiful. (Soar)

~ Soar

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.

~ N.t. Wright

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

~ Alison Croggon

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

~ Mario Vargas Llosa