“No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.” KnowsBookKidsTodayReadingEventsPaperCurrentsAppetiteLove Of ReadingNever Stop LearningGed Author:Michael J. Fox
“I don't want little kids reading my comics.” WantLittlesKidsReadingLittle KidReading For Kids Author:Jhonen Vasquez
“I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.” PeopleThinkingWritingChildrenBookKidsReadingAudienceGiver Author:Lois Lowry
“Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.” MayBookKidsReadingGamesCan DoAttentionTechnologyMediaTelevisionTvsComputerEntertainmentNew TechnologyReading For KidsComputer GamesElectronic Media Author:Jon Scieszka
“In a way, 'On the Road''s greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.” PeopleWayEyeKidsLastsYoungFightingReadingVictoryMetsBattleDirtyCoveredLast TimeGreatest Victory Author:Tony D'Souza
“I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.” IfsBookWould BeKidsReadingSittingMy FamilyCornersBarsFuneralProceduresUnnoticedBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Neil Gaiman
“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.” KnowsWayWantKindChildrenBookCharacterCareKidsAgeAbleFightingReadingAttentionKnow HowChildhoodDetailsExcitementDescriptionPlotChaptersPacksBack WhenIllustrationDickensAttention SpanChild CareCliffhangerKiplingWay Back When Author:Cressida Cowell
“I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsYearsKindBookSeemsCareKidsSchoolReadingHoursHigh SchoolDon't CareTeenagerI Don't CareInsecurityLunchMisfitsJocksSchool Years Author:Charles de Lint
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” ThinkingLifeFactsDreamKidsReadingChanceDealsEducationInspirational LifeGrew Author:Bill Gates
“My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.” WayWritingKindKidsReadingParentLordRingsComprehensionFablesOverrated Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.” BookDifferentMatterKidsReadingForceInterestMilitaryDadBedWeaponsRedArmyMy DadBook ReadingArmed ForcesSwedishRed Army Author:Dolph Lundgren
“When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC.” KidsSchoolReadingCollegeHigh SchoolMarvel ComicsReading More Author:David S. Goyer
“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.” MeanChildrenArtBookKidsOrderFightingCoursesReadingLiteratureLanguageChallengesLevelsRoomsAttentionTroubleDisciplineOfficeStuckBackgroundsAgencyAcademicCopSupportiveFilesCivicsInterpersonalDelinquentsInterpersonal RelationshipLanguage Arts Book:Up the Down Staircase Source: Up the Down Staircase
“I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.” KidsYoungUsedReadingParentRolesKingsModelsInspiredExcitedLegacyRole ModelsDrs Author:John Legend
“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.” WorldKindTwoGovernmentKidsReadingThis WorldMajorsFilesCryptography Book:Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C Source: Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C
“I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.” YearsBelieveBookCountryKidsReadingMillionsHeardSourceReaderComputerAdultsEntertainmentDrawingAlternativesBeachFrighteningSparesAmusementSpare Time Author:Tim Lebbon
“Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.” PeopleIfsChildrenCareKidsTurnsReadingSoundLinesTalkingListeningBenefitsAdultsExtrasImmigrantsVolumeDeafTurn Off Author:F. Paul Wilson
“Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.” ThinkingBookIdeasCharacterKidsReadingCompanyFansCreatorComicEditorsMainstreamComic BookStorytellerReading For KidsBiggest Fan Author:Greg Pak
“Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.” MadeImportantKidsSchoolReadingParentWho I AmVery Inspirational Author:Sasha Grey
“I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.” KidsReadingHugeDragonsFind MeBookworms Author:Julie Kagawa
“I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldChildrenBookKidsReadingParentObjectsPossession Author:Ellen Hopkins
“I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.” ThinkingWantFirstsKindBookMightKidsReadingGamesFunEnjoyMoralTeachTvsMessagesVideo Author:Louis Sachar
“I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.” I CanBookFactsKidsReadingWaitingFictionSpecialEffectsScience FictionArthurPhilipSpecial Effects Author:Matt Groening
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.” NeedsKidsMotherReadingPowerfulStreetsDangerMomPeriodsFemaleUltimateConstantCompetitionMotherhoodMagazinesOlympicsMotheringGood MotherBest Mother Author:Susan J. Douglas
“We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.” WorldKidsTodaySchoolReadingRecordsStudentsCollegeHighestHigh SchoolRateMathAll TimeScoreHigh School GraduationSchool Graduation Author:Barack Obama
“Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.” PeopleThinkingBookKidsReading Author:Tyler Hilton
“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.” BookIdeasHardKidsWantedUsedHateReadingStuffChallengesForeverDecidedTake MeSophisticatedCaptainsIrresistibleUnderpants Author:Dav Pilkey