Over time, nosotros've posted a affair or two about reluctant readers. Chances are, you lot've got someone in your life who either can't really figure out what they relish reading, or just straight upwardly decline to try. In case y'all needed some inspiration today, hither are some quotations from authors: some words of wisdom to assist those who but haven't seen the bookish lite.

I take a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was ane. I would practise anything to avoid reading. In my instance, it wasn't until I was xiii and discovered The Lord of the Rings that I learned to love reading.

Rick Riordan

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, afterward all. Nosotros have an obligation not to bore our readers, but to make them need to turn the pages. One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.

Neil Gaiman

One style my parents continued to get me really excited was reading aloud to me. A lot of books are just inherently fascinating on the printed page, only if you lot start to read them out loud, they became even more interesting. Then, for many years when I was a child, at night my parents would read books to me. Merely then — and here's the twist — they'd cease at a really suspenseful part and say, "Well, now it's time for bed." I'd whine, I'd plead, but they wouldn't give in. They would put the volume on the nightstand, identify a flashlight on top of it, and say, "Call up, at that place is no reading after the lights go out."

What could I practice? They would shut the door and go downstairs, and I would click on the light and keep on reading. The next 24-hour interval, the bookmark would be in an entirely different identify, and my parents would pick upwardly from there as if null had happened, and stop at the adjacent suspenseful moment. At that place was always a notion that this kind of nocturnal reading was forbidden, simply there was as well the notion that they were giving me the tools I needed to keep on going.

Lemony Snicket (source)

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the all-time ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include sense of humour, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, sound books and comic books.

Jon Scieszka

High school teachers who want to go reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

Dave Eggers

Whatever book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

If you lot don't like to read, you oasis't found the correct book.

J.K. Rowling

It is non enough to simply teach children to read; we have to requite them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations–something that will help them brand sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

Katherine Patterson

Go far a rule never to give a child a book you lot would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Y'all think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, only and so yous read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me almost were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin

I thought all of these quotations were inspiring in one way or another, and though some of them seem obvious (figure out what your reluctant reader child/friend/other relative/co-worker likes and bridge the gap from there) to some, things don't always just click so easily.

Have y'all ever read or heard some inspiring words from authors on the bailiwick of getting someone to read? Share any I might have missed in the comments beneath!

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