John Green Quotes

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

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

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

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.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'

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

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

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

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

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

I never stopped reading.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

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

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

I don't read a lot of books.