Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

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.

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

I never stopped reading.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

I have always advised men to read.

I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.

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 will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

Kids who read are bright.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.