Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

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

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

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.

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

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'm a slow reader.

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

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

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

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

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 just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.