Adults Quote by John Steinbeck

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their…

— David Elkind

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— Maryanne Wolf

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the…

— John Steinbeck

You cannot start reading without being learned.

— Naqi Mirza

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

— Tony Gonzalez

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

— Alberto Manguel

Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to…

— Marcus Borg

To learn to read is to light a fire.

— Victor Hugo

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn…

— Frank Smith

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers