Bridget Hall Quotes

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

I don't read a lot of books.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

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

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

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

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

I don't think I read an entire book in high school.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

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.

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.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.