Books Quote by James Patterson

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing…

— Walter Dean Myers

I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so much closer,…

— Marley Dias

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

— Judith Viorst

“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier and deeper…

— Raven Black

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

— Charles Clarke

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

— Jon Scieszka

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

— Dave Eggers

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

— Alexandra Adornetto

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any…

— Lauren Tarshis

We work with tweens. Middle school grades. That's a key time in a young person's literary history. That's the time when they're still open…

— Sofia Quintero

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as…

— Louise Brown