Quotes About Reading

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.

I buy way too many cookbooks and read food blogs at night when I can't sleep.

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

I just love to look at cookbooks, it's almost like they're comic books for me. I can't look at them before bed; it gets me too excited.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.

Sometimes people who sell books are seen as corporate salesmen, and people who sell reading are seen as literacy advocates, but you can't really separate the two.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.

I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly.

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.