Keira Knightley Quotes

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I find words really hard.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

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.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

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

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

There is no more important foundational skill than reading.

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 was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Reading is important.

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.