Reading Strategies Quotes

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

Have read little and understood less.

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

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

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 think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I'm a slow reader.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

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 had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.