Justin Theroux Quotes

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

I'm not well read.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

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 wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

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

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

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I seemed to have been born reading.

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.

I just have never got into reading.

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.

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

I cannot remember not being able to read.

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

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