I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.
I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out.
I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.
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.
Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
I'm a slow reader.
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
My mother taught me to read.
Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.
I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.
Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.
If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
