Reading Motivation Quotes

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

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.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

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

I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

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

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out.

I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.