Adora Svitak Quotes

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

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.

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.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.

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.

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.

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.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

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

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

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 could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.