Rachel Nichols Quotes

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.

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

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

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 think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

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

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

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

I never stopped reading.

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.

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

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

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

I seemed to have been born reading.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.

Childhood reading is so important.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.