Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.

If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.

I dream of a house full of books.

Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity

My career is my girlfriend.

Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.