Thomas Brodie-Sangster Quotes

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'm a lousy reader.

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

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

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

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

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

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

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

I was a dyslexic kid.

I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I just have never got into reading.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

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.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

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

My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.

I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.

My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.