Frances McDormand Quotes

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

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

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

No child should graduate from high school with a diploma he or she can’t read.

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.