Frank Lampard Quotes

There's definitely a value in being literate.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Kids who read are bright.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading is important.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.

I like to read and understand.

I think literacy is everything.

Reading is more important than writing.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Reading taught me how to write.

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

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

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.