Jon Scieszka Quotes

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

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

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

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

I'm actually not a big reader.

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

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 have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

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

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

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'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

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