Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I seemed to have been born reading.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

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

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

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.

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'm always reading books.

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

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

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

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I don't read a lot of books.

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

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

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 am an avid reader.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

Childhood reading is so important.