Julian Barnes Quotes

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

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

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

I'm a lousy reader.

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

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

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

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

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.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I seemed to have been born reading.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

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

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.

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