B. F. Skinner Quotes

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

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

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

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

I'm actually not a big reader.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

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

I never stopped reading.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.

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.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

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.

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

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

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

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.