If you want to feel important and indispensable, read a…

I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's…

— Bill Cosby

I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

— David Baldacci

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going…

— James Nesbitt

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child”

— Robert D. Harris

“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her,…

— John Connolly

I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the…

— Suzanne Collins

Warning: Do not read this story right after eating. In fact, don't read it right before eating either. In fact, just to be safe,…

— Louis Sachar

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

“Between my straw mattress and the bed planks, I had actually found an old scrap of newspaper, yellow and transparent, half-stuck to the canvas.…

— Albert Camus

“If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. I know that sounds a little mysterious – but it’s all…

— Anonymous

“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him…

— André Aciman

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both…

— Stephen King

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger