Jennifer Egan Quotes

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Kids who read are bright.

Reading is more important than writing.

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

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

Reading is important.

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

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to 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 most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

Man is what he reads.

We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read.