promoting reading Quotes

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I think the main thing that we can do as adults helping young people to find the joy in reading, whether we're parents or caregivers or educators, is to come at that subliminally as much as possible and not to make it an issue. The key is to know the individual child and get them materials to read that's going to speak to them best.

The only question I'd be interested in is what books other celebrities have read recently, which is part of my campaign to promote reading.

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher. I think the most important thing is to figure out what they're trying to do and turn them onto writers who are doing similar stuff. I think that's something I can do more than anything else: get them to be big readers.