David Ebershoff Quotes

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

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.

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

I'm always reading books.

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

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 don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

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

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

I'm always reading something.

I just have never got into reading.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good, to make them sleep at night.

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 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.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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

I am not a big reader to begin with.