Heather Donahue Quotes

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

You can't write if you don't read.

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.

When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I love to read, and I've always loved to write.

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

I've always been a voracious reader.

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.