Books For Kids Quotes

It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.

Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Love of books is the best of all.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.