Marley Dias Quotes

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

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.

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 actually not a big reader.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

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 love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

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

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

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

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

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 read a lot as a kid and in high school.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

I've loved reading all my life.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I spend a lot of time reading.

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

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.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

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