Gail Carson Levine Quotes

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

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.

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

Childhood reading is so important.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

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

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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

I never stopped reading.

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

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I spend a lot of time reading.

My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.

I'm always reading books.