Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I seemed to have been born reading.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

I'm a very slow reader.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I'm a slow reader.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

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

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

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

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.

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.

I'm not well read.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

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

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

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