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The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness. -- Marilyn Jager Adams
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital. -- John le Carre
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital. -- John le Carre
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. -- Edward Gibbon
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. -- Alan Dean Foster
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. -- Margaret Atwood
Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas. -- Wolf Blitzer
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. -- Iain Banks
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments. -- Jim Evans
I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew. -- Gene Weingarten
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. -- Patrick White
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy. -- Anne Graham Lotz
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on. -- Hannibal Buress
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism. -- Iggy Pop
I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things. -- Jonathan Dee
TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading. -- Nic Pizzolatto
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer. -- Harold E. Varmus
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. -- Russell Banks
I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading. -- Tad Williams
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading. -- Mos Def
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. -- Jo Nesbo
Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. -- William Osler
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. -- C. S. Lewis
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. -- Barack Obama
Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them. -- Michael Burry
The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. -- Graham Greene
I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time. -- Daniel Handler
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading. -- Rebecca Solnit
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader. -- Matt Wagner

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