James Dashner Quotes

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

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

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I never stopped reading.

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

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.

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 never read books - and still don't read books - to develop 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.

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

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

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.

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

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

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.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

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.