Gene Luen Yang Quotes

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 read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

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'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.

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

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

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

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 am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

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

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 barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

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.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I never stopped reading.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

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.