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Reading Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
- Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't…
- I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had…
- 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…
- We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired…
- I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us…
- 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 -…
- I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist…
- When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
- I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading…
- The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a…
- I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was…
- I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be…
- With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of…
- October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.…
- Libraries are our friends.
- I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed…
- Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
- Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and…
- Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded…
- I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick…
- 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.)
- I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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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