Quotes About Literacy

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

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

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

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.

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

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

I just have never got into reading.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.

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

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'