Joseph Bruchac 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.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

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

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

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

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

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

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the duvet. That love of reading stayed with me.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

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.

I really don't like to read.

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

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.