Steve Carell Quotes

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

Kids who read are bright.

I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential.

Properly, we should read for power.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

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.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.