James Patterson Quotes

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

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

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

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.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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

People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

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 am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.