Mark Lanegan Quotes

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

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

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.

My mother taught me to read.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

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.

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.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I like to read and understand.

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

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

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.

I have always advised men to read.

There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

Up until 3rd grade you are learning to read. After 3rd grade, you are reading to learn. if you aren’t … reading proficiently at the end of the 3rd grade, you are going to struggle throughout the rest of your school years.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

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

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

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

I'm not well read.