Macaulay Culkin Quotes

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.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

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

I'm actually not a big reader.

I'm always reading books.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

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

People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

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

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

I don't read a lot of books.

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

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

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

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

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.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

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

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.

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.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

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.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.