Edward Hirsch Quotes

You can't write if you don't read.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

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

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.

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 don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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 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.

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.

I'm always reading something.

I have always advised men to read.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has 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'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

I spend a lot of time reading.

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.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

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

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

My mother taught me to read.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.