Justin Theroux Quotes

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

I'm a slow reader.

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.

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 read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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

My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.

When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

My mother taught me to read.

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

I'm a lousy reader.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Childhood reading is so important.