Chetan Bhagat Quotes

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere - to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won't ever come back to books.

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

Overall, people are reading less.

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

Growing up with videos and YouTube, being able to see content from the '90s - music and games - that really helped me stay connected with the time before me.

I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.

I'm interested in all forms of content, including Internet and gaming. On the TV side, cable has sparked a renaissance of the medium and that will continue for storytellers.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.

There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about it, although we've tried to reach these dropout readers with the 'young adult' book.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

My oldest grew up on Disney, but my youngest is all about Snapchat and YouTube.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

The Internet is a sketch show.

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.