Adora Svitak Quotes

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

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.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

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

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 read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

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.

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.

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.

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

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

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 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.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

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 never stopped reading.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

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

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.