Quotes About Reading

More and more I'm finding that I'm reading history, I'm reading biography, I'm reading autobiography for a sense of people who've been able to provide leadership. I don't read leadership books anymore.

I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.

I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

My position in football was cornerback, and what your job is as a cornerback is to read the person that's in front of you - read their body language and anticipate what's going to happen next.

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

Read much, but not many books.

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

My house is filled with boxes of books.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

We don't play bridge, golf or tennis. And I guess just about the only thing I'm interested in is reading about, talking about and looking at cars.

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't see books and learning as a separate part of life.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.