Nick Nolte Quotes

I'm a slow reader.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

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

One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams, it's going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read - you ought to listen to her.

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

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

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

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

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

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

I'm a very slow reader.

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

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'm not well read.