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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

— Rebecca Makkai

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.

— Vik Muniz

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

— Diana Gabaldon

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

— Alan Kay

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

— C. K. Williams

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

— Benjamin Clementine

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

— Chuck Jones

✗Opposing Perspectives

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

— Philip Schultz

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

— Barbara Corcoran

My mother taught me to read.

— Fiona Shaw

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

— Dakota Fanning