"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

Henry James, American Writer

Reading, Intellect, Reputation, Admiration

"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Reading, Courage, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Joy, Books, Imagination

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

James Madison, American President

Reading, Leisure

"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."

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"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."

People

"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."

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"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."

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"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."

Family

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

Books

"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."

Explore more quotes by Beverly Cleary

"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books."

"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."

"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."

"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."

"I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters."

"I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all."

"I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind."