Susana Martinez Quotes

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

I had once been told my ability to read would only reach that of a ten-year-old, but I was determined to achieve more.

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

George W. Bush was a little sub literate.

A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.

The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books. That's my story. That's my truth.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

I've got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Because he was dyslexic, and we then didn't have the teachers to teach him how to overcome or cope with his dyslexia, so he was given exemption to go to the American school. He speaks like an American. He's going to Wharton.

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

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.