Ability Quote by Jay Blades

I had once been told my ability to read would only reach that of a ten-year-old, but I was determined to achieve more.

— Darcey Bussell

I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at…

— Richard Branson

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

— Diana Gabaldon

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

— Ahmet Zappa

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how…

— Diamond Dallas Page

“Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences…

— E.D. Hirsch Jr

“quantitative evidence that teaching children to read from age five is not likely to make that child any more successful at reading than a…

— Terry Marselle

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind…

— Jaume Cabre

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were…

— J. J. Abrams

I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside from getting…

— James Frey

I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer,…

— Jewel