Adora Svitak Quotes

Kids who read are bright.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

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.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

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.

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

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

I like to read and understand.

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

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

I think literacy is everything.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.