Book Reports Quotes

I do wish that reviews were less like book reports. There was an era when reviewers had something to say about a book: when they painted context and drew conclusions. Many reviews these days are little more than plot summary.

It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester." - Your parents must be so proud you can read." - They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat.

In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on.

The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical pieces together, building on the minstrelsy piece, it became my history of popular music.

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.

When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.