Chance Quote by Stephen D. Krashen

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude…

— H. G. Wells

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

— Aristotle

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes…

— Robert B. Laughlin

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very,…

— Mark Haddon

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You sentimentalise them because they're little," she said. "But the format doesn't matter. I have gradually learned that everyone, absolutely everyone of every size,…

— Tove Jansson

It's difficult because you can't generalise about these things. But in essence, you deal with children as simply as you deal with actors -…

— Michael Haneke

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

— E. B. White

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're…

— Margaret Atwood