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Reading Quotes by Kate DiCamillo
- Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
- I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some…
- I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each…
- It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is…
- I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
- He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair…
- And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
- It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see…
- Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
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- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen