“I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.” WayLittlesKidsReaderCuriousEccentricTalkersOutgoing Author:Michael J. Fox
“I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.” BookWholeBigsKidsGrewReaderGrew UpCrowdsComicComic BookBook Readers Author:Joe Manganiello
“Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!” IfsShouldWritingMeanChildrenBookKidsSleepReaderAdultsLettersNovelistsSeventeen Author:Daniel Pinkwater
“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
“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.” WellsCountryHomeSeemsKidsTodayHatePayFourFeetTeachingCarReaderTasteResearchPropertyBoatExpensiveSquaresVacationCapitalistEmailIconsCambridgeAnti-americanTeaching KidsBrowsing Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsWritingBookDoneBigsKidsJobsCoursesEnjoyReaderPicksEngagedReluctant Author:Rick Riordan
“When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.” StillsBookHandsKidsReaderSteadyTwinsCherriesNancyNancy Drew Author:Rhea Perlman
“If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable and will engage the reader's interest, go for it. Make sure you have something unique to offer. I enjoy the work of writers who give you something you won't find anywhere else.” IfsGivingWritingIdeasKidsEnjoyInterestReaderOffersUnique Author:Joel McIver
“It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.” ThinkingKindBookDifferentWould BeKidsBabyReaderAdultsClubsSatisfiedGenreDifferent KindsEclecticBooks For Kids Author:Ann M. Martin
“My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I myself get from fantasy novels - and to make enough money to help feed my kids while doing so.” EnoughHelpingKidsSimpleFantasyNovelWonderfulReaderAspirationImmersionFantasy Novels Author:Saladin Ahmed
“When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsShouldYearsMayHelpingKidsMotherAsksFatherStuffSleepReaderSexualityAsk MeBeneficialInterviewers Author:Missy Elliot
“If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.” IfsKidsReadingParentReaderAssociatesGood Parent Author:Orson Scott Card
“So, what we do in Love Dare for Parents is walk through the principles that help you win the hearts of your children and find that balance as a parent. As we all know, parenting can be wonderful and exasperating at times. So, we walk through the principles of demonstrating love to your kids in the most appropriate and healthy ways. We learned a great deal doing it and we believe the readers will too.” KnowsWayBelieveHeartChildrenHelpingKidsWinningParentWalksDealsPrinciplesWonderfulReaderBalanceHealthyOur ChildrenDareYour ChildrenAppropriateDemonstratingLove Dare Author:Alex Kendrick
“I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.” PeopleHas BeensKidsReadingHappenedReaderLessonsReading History Author:Warren Mundine
“I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.” ThinkingLooksImportantBigsKidsReadingDevelopmentReaderToolsConnectionsFundamentalsBondingLove Of ReadingKids Love Author:Ziggy Marley
“I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.” IfsWorldWayMayBookKidsSchoolYoungReadingStudyTeacherTaughtReaderListsOpeningOpening UpAnthologyBad Experiences Author:Margaret Atwood
“While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.” BookBigsKidsGamesBitsSportsTeamReaderSeasonsCompetitionCuriousCoachingCaptureEngineeringConventionalStaffContestsRoboticsGrippingCoaching Staff Author:L. Jon Wertheim
“I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for myself but my audience is anybody who knows how to read. I think a story should engage anybody who knows how to read. And I hope that my stories do, maybe on a different level for more sophisticated readers than, say, a high school kid, but still a story has got to grab you. That's why we read it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsShouldWritingStillsDifferentStoriesKidsSchoolLevelsAudienceKnow HowReaderHigh SchoolCriticsSophisticatedDifferent Levels Author:T.C. Boyle
“I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.” BookBigsKidsImaginationPartyBoysReaderHorseRidingMy ImaginationCaptured Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“You sing about the things you're influenced by. So we've been big into sci-fi since we were kids, things like Star Trek etc. Then came movies like Terminator and Dune. Burton is also a really big reader and loves sci-fi novels which helps him write. It's also really cool he does that because it's through the perspective of how we see things going or possibly going.” WritingDoeHelpingBigsKidsStarsNovelPerspectiveReaderAnd LoveEtcSci FiReally Cool Author:Dino Cazares
“It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.” YearsTwoImportantBookKidsYoungThreeGrowsRealizingReaderBiggerSeriesEightNineViolentMarchIntroductionNine YearsBook Readers Author:Andrew Aydin
“How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.” IfsHas BeensMightKidsPoliticalLeaderReaderKingsHeroSickHospitalsBiographiesMight Have BeenKnightsArthurPolitical LeadersJocksKing Arthur Author:Chris Matthews
“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.” BookHardWholeKidsFunVoiceChallengesAttitudeNovelReaderBattleAuthorityAdultsEnvironmentalWhole LifeFoolishNarrativeGreedyArbitraryGrownupsKids LoveIrreverentSmartassNarrative Voice Author:Carl Hiaasen
“It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingChildrenStoriesKidsAgeDifferencesResponsibilityReaderAdultsSyntaxSemanticsThematic Author:Kate DiCamillo
“[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.” KidsFilmReadingPlayerReaderTreatsSellsProductionsI RealizedMagazinesFeaturesComing OutPremieresFilm Production Author:William Gibson
“My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund. In truth, the name of the column, "The Color of Money," has less to do with my race than the fact that the color of money is green and it's green we all need to live a good life.” NeedsTryingMayDifferentFactsKidsNamesRaceCollegeColorReaderGreenFundRetirementGood LifeColumns Author:Michelle Singletary
“It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's reading, or going to see a show or listening to a piece of music or cooking a meal that's in one of the stories, something practical, something kinesthetic that draws the reader in and helps them to experience the story for themselves. Those are all ways I think we can kind of come in the back door and help kids find the joy, as opposed to the chore or responsibility, of reading.” ThinkingWayKindHelpingStoriesShowsMightKidsJoyReadingResponsibilityPiecesDoorsListeningReaderDrawsCookingPracticalsMealsMuseumsRelevantExhibitsChoresBack Doors Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“People always ask me about the role models that I'm providing for kids, and I say I can't be concerned with that. I'm not worrying about corrupting youth. I'm worrying about writing realistically and truthfully to affect the reader.” PeopleWritingI CanKidsAsksRolesWorryYouthReaderModelsConcernedAsk MeRole ModelsProvidingNot Worrying Author:Robert Cormier
“I think that actually the rhythmic nature of picture books and of young reader story books is a way to help kids fall in love with language and what you can do with it and how it sounds in your range. It sort of has a musicality but on the other hand they get the story and the ideas and the context of it. I think it's a way to get kids into it and I also think that when kids are around people who love books it rubs off on them.” PeopleThinkingWayBookIdeasHelpingStoriesHandsKidsYoungFallLanguageSoundCan DoReaderFalling In LoveRangePicture BooksMusicalityStory Book Author:Josh Prince
“I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.” ShouldBelieveChildrenBookKidsJoyTurnsReadingI BelieveQualityWorryReaderMore TimeQuantityIntroducingLifelongJoy Of Reading Author:James Patterson
“What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.” PeopleIfsHardKidsSchoolMiddleReaderHigh SchoolComing OutCompetentMiddle School Author:James Patterson
“One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults.” KnowsBookFactsKidsInterestingReaderMassAdultsReleaseTwilightMaximumInteresting ThingsMaximum Ride Author:James Patterson
“'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.” BookKidsGenerationsReaderInternetGratitudeSeriesDepthDebtErasHarry PotterPottersFeatsDebt Of Gratitude Author:Gary Ross