Maryanne Wolf Quotes

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

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

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

I like to read and understand.

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

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

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

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.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

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

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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.

I'm a very slow reader.

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.