Paloma Faith Quotes

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

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

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

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

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

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

I was not a great reader. I don't know how to put it any other way.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

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

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I never stopped reading.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

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 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.

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.

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

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