Books Quote by John Steinbeck

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to…

— Orville Prescott

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all…

— Michael Morpurgo

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good.…

— Helen Dunmore

Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.

— Doris Lessing

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope…

— Rick Riordan

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

— Beverly Cleary

If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them.

— Sean Doolittle

That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way.…

— Kwame Alexander

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

— Diana Gabaldon

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives…

— Julie Andrews

I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod…

— Jacob Weisberg

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

— Kate DiCamillo