Bennett Miller Quotes

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I don't read a lot of books.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

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.

I am an avid reader.

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.

I'm always reading books.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

You can't write if you don't read.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.