Beverly Cleary Quotes

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I never stopped reading.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

Childhood reading is so important.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

I'm always reading books.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

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.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.