Quotes About Reading

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few weeks later, an actor whispered in my ear, 'It sounds like you're in line for James Herriot.' I read every book in about 48 hours.

I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.

I think my passion is skincare because I've had so many different skin problems that I'm just fascinated by it. I find myself always reading about it.

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

I used to read voraciously while in school and cinema was always a fascination. Law was the safe backup plan.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

My reading with RuPaul was actually, for me, on a personal level, one of my favorites and the most shocking. This is someone I've wanted to read for a long time and so when he was standing there I nearly fainted.

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

The whole of Sheffield seems to be crazy about books. There are festivals and their own book awards, and their own children's book conferences for teachers and librarians.

I loved reading all kinds of books, but I particularly loved books like 'Red Planet' by Robert Heinlein, which very few people read anymore but is a wonderful science fiction story.

I don't read Science Fiction.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Acting takes inspiration from all the allied fields - be it diction, dancing, reading, narrating, I try to imbibe all those things to perfect my acting skills.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.