William Morris Quotes

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

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

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

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

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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

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.

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 seemed to have been born reading.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

Childhood reading is so important.

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.

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

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

I don't read a lot of books.