Mark Haddon Quotes

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

You can't write if you don't read.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

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

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

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 have always advised men to read.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

I spend a lot of time reading.

My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

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

I never stopped reading.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.