Bores Quote by Mark Haddon

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes,…

— Anne Fadiman

Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot.…

— Stephen King

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their…

— Eckhart Tolle

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they're turning kids off to reading instead of turning…

— Judy Blume

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as…

— Jacqueline Wilson

A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start…

— Jan Brett

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't…

— Michael Rosen

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It…

— J. M. Coetzee

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

— Alexandra Adornetto

The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it.…

— Jon Scieszka