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It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.

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

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

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 had once been told my ability to read would only reach that of a ten-year-old, but I was determined to achieve more.

A child who can't read isn't going to get better because you told him he was bad.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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

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

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

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

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 didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

I'm a lousy reader.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.