Walter Dean Myers Quotes

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

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

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 always advised men to read.

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'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

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

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

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

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.

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 a mentor to anybody who's interested.

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.

I'm a lousy reader.

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

All the youth ..., who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it be set to learn ... until they are able to read English writing well.

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.