Quotes About Learning

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

When the Hyderabad Chapter of TFI approached me to be a part of their Leaders in Classroom event, I readily agreed to be a part of it. It was a great classroom experience. I really enjoyed myself. The kids were very expressive and it was heartening to say the least.

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

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I just have never got into reading.

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.