Malorie Blackman Quotes

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

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

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.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I never stopped reading.

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 care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

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.

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

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.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I'm actually not a big reader.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

I'm always reading books.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.