Reading Confidence Quotes

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

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

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

Since I was a kid, I feel most confident when I'm reading.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

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.

People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.