Rick Riordan Quotes

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

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

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.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

I never stopped reading.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Read much, but not many books.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

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

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

I have always advised men to read.

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

My mother insisted that her children read.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.