Gza Quotes

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.

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.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

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

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

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

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

I just have never got into reading.

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

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

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

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

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

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.

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

Childhood reading is so important.

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

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

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.