Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

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.

I'm a slow reader.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

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

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

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

We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

I like to read and understand.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I read part of it all the way through.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

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

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'm a very slow reader.

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

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

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Reading is important.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

I seemed to have been born reading.