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I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.