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I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child. -- Goh Chok Tong
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know. -- John Updike
I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers. -- Sue Monk Kidd
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. -- Anthony Browne
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. -- Norman Spinrad
I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades. -- Paul Watson
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. -- Mary Oliver
Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations. -- A. N. Wilson
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!' -- Natsuki Takaya
As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on. -- Robert Lefkowitz
I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books. -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined. -- Katherine Helmond
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication. -- Victoria Osteen
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. -- Kate Atkinson
If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent. -- Michael Sandel
I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home. -- J. M. Coetzee
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. -- Jessye Norman
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science. -- Michio Kaku
For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience. -- Michelle Paver
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives. -- Malachy McCourt
I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories. -- Malorie Blackman
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. -- Mem Fox
My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him. -- Bruce Coville
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. -- Keri Russell
It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child -- Robert D. Harris
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.' -- Keri Russell
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. -- Francine Pascal
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject. -- Barbara Bush
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. -- Kate Beckinsale
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. -- Ann Brashares
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. -- Esther Meynell
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. -- Gail Caldwell
If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. -- Gail Carson Levine
Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. -- John Steinbeck
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) -- Neil Gaiman
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. -- Maya Angelou
If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place. -- Malorie Blackman
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. -- Meg Ryan
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. -- Meg Ryan
When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she'd give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading. -- Zoe Kazan
I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged. -- Mark Mathabane

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