Dave Eggers Quotes

I never stopped reading.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I don't think I read an entire book in high school.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

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

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 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.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

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.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

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

I have always advised men to read.

My mother insisted that her children read.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I'm always reading books.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

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

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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