Quotes About Reading

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I'm an avid biography reader.

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

I'm a lousy reader.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I was a precocious reader.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm not really a big reader.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I've always been a big reader.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.