John Hickenlooper Quotes

I don't read a lot of books.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

I'm always reading books.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

I never stopped reading.

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

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

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

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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

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.

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

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

I'm actually not a big reader.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

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.

I was a good boy in high school, and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.