Boring Quote by Rick Riordan

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading…

— Rick Riordan

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some…

— Joshua Lederberg

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

— Robert Hass

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on -…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

— Anonymous

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten…

— Jodi Picoult

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

— Donalyn Miller

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who…

— Rafe Esquith

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

— Eoin Colfer

I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more…

— Margaret Atwood