Children Quote by Ian Sansom Download Open image ““the kind of child who seemed to start reading without anyone realising or noticing,”” — Ian Sansom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Kind Child Noticing Reading Reading Realising Start Reading
“His main example was to read like a child--very curiously and carefully ... But with the full intellectual sophistication of a brilliant adult.” — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“I think the need for reading boils down to one simple issue: children are selfish. Reading about other people creates a sense of balance… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“When you're a kid, and you first start reading grown-up books, it's like looking in a window at night at people who think no… — David Huddle Copy Share Image
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” — Frank Serafini Copy Share Image
“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Everyone loved a good reader. And he'd always loved being a great reader - until recently. Maybe it was just part of getting older,… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response—librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with serious… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“Massive changes may have occurred in libraries in recent years, with new digital resources and services supplementing the old traditional resources and services, the… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“Israel had always thought that growing up was simply something that happened to you: you grew taller, more dextrous, you acquired language, learned to… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.” — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“Israel was thinking of warm beer, and muffins, and Wensleydale cheese, and Wallace and Gromit, and the music of Elgar, and the Clash, and… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't learn classification and cataloguing.” — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
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