Billy Burke Quotes

I'm a lousy reader.

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

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.

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 was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

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

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

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

I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!

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.

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.

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

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

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

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.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.