J. J. Abrams Quotes

I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

I had two brilliant children and one genius. Elon could figure out things when he was very young and was always advanced for his age. He could hold a conversation about something that was way beyond his years, and he read voraciously.

I was kind of advanced for my age, just because I started early, when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. And my dad always had me playing with older groups.

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

Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.

I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

Up until 3rd grade you are learning to read. After 3rd grade, you are reading to learn. if you aren’t … reading proficiently at the end of the 3rd grade, you are going to struggle throughout the rest of your school years.

George W. Bush was a little sub literate.

I cannot remember not being able to read.

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

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