Walter Dean Myers Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Reading is not optional.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading, Optional

  Walter Dean Myers (2013). “Tags”, p.18, Harper Collins

• We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading, Kids, Needs

• We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading, Exercise, Wonderful

• There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading, Community, Certain

• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Reading, Responsibility

• We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading, Kids, Medicine

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