Rick Riordan Quotes

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

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

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

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 don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

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'm always reading something.

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'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

I spend a lot of time reading.

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

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

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

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

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

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

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.

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

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I have always advised men to read.

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

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

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