John Niven Quotes

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 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.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

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

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

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.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

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

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

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

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

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

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

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.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

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.

Childhood reading is so important.

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

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 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.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.