Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

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

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

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

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

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

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

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

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 was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

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 seemed to have been born reading.

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

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.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

I'm always reading something.