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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. -- B. F. Skinner
I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading. -- James Dashner
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. -- Edward Gibbon
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. -- Bruno Tonioli
Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. -- Cyndi Lauper
You can never be wise unless you love reading. -- Samuel Johnson
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. -- William Godwin
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. -- Baron de Montesquieu
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. -- Ann Brashares
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that. -- Edie Falco
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. -- Rufus Choate
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else. -- Dakota Fanning
I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds. -- Shakira
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life. -- Mark Leyner
I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him. -- Kate Fleetwood
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading. -- Rick Riordan
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids. -- Neil Gaiman
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like - the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature - you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant. -- Neil Gaiman
When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us. -- Lena Dunham
Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began. -- John Dufresne
I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that. -- Garth Stein
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams. -- Barack Obama
Reading has always been the great love of my life. -- Darren Shan
I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding. -- Louise Nurding
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading. -- Kelley Armstrong
I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense. -- Lisa Jackson
I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading. -- Scott Ellis
I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading. -- Nicole Jordan
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. -- Charice Pempengco
I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. -- Neil Jackson
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine. -- Alison Weir
Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading. -- Ruth Rendell
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. -- Francine Pascal
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. -- Adriana Trigiani
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that. -- Danny Boyle
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective. -- Mallory Ortberg
I love books. I enjoyed reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I have falling in love with reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The love of reading can be contagious. -- Brandon Mull
You learn by reading but understand by LOVE. -- Shams Tabrizi
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. -- George R. R. Martin
LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading! -- Mark Hamill
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing. -- Tony Kushner
My first love was reading, which inspired me to write. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself. -- James Lipton
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love. -- Gilles Deleuze
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. -- Francisco Costa
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father. -- Alafair Burke
I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation. -- Ali Larter
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. -- Luciano Pavarotti
I love reading for a character I have no business reading for. -- Henry Zebrowski
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. -- Gail Carson Levine
I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. -- Lana Del Rey
I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading. -- Joanna Bolouri
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. -- Eileen Myles
I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics. -- Kellan Lutz
If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading. -- Mary Roach
I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them. -- Marie Rutkoski
My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art. -- Chantal Sutherland
I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts. -- Angelina Jolie
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. -- Lily King
I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them. -- Felicity Jones
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class -- Francine Prose
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. -- John Larroquette
I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away. -- Andre Rieu
I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading. -- Daniel Keyes
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives. -- Malachy McCourt
I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes -- Nastassja Kinski
If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening. -- Scott Cohen
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. -- James Patterson
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. -- Bear Grylls
I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure. -- Cara Buono
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories. -- Malorie Blackman
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise. -- Kabir
I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event! -- Kate Nash
I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance! -- Judy Blume
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Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction. -- Stanley Bing
thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading. -- Isaac Watts
what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy. -- Daniel S. Loeb
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. -- Jerry Spinelli
I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. -- Nina Jacobson
I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books. -- Jimmy Kimmel
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. -- Steve Leveen
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. -- Glen Hirshberg
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. -- Jami Attenberg
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. -- Ray Bradbury
Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime -- William Blake
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write. -- Matthew Healy
I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night. -- Rachel Boston
I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well. -- Sarah Monette
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can. -- Anton Yelchin
You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love. -- Debasish Mridha
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers. -- Lauren Mayberry
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. -- Craig Finn
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. -- Rita Dove
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer -- Rita Dove
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning. -- Chesley Sullenberger
My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading. -- Evangeline Lilly
I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool. -- Jennifer A. Nielsen
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest. -- Janet Fitch
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance. -- Guy Maddin
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place. -- Max Irons
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. -- Nick Cave
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading. -- Manju Warrier
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. -- James Patterson
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read. -- Linda Ronstadt
I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't. -- Joel Kinnaman
My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children. -- Corin Tucker
I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do! -- Peyton Reed
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with. -- Daniel Tammet

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