Miranda July Quotes

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

I'm always reading something.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

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.

I'm actually not a big reader.

I spend a lot of time reading.

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'm always reading books.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.

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

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

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

I never stopped reading.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

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

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

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

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.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

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.