If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.