The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
James PattersonFang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?"
James PattersonWe will destroy you,โ the Flyboys droned. โYou have no escape.โ That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these โdroids to say? โTalk about lame,โ Fang muttered.
James PattersonOne of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.
James Patterson