Jason Reynolds Quotes

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

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

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

Kids who read are bright.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

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.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Read much, but not many books.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I've got no education.

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

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.