Quotes About Reading

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so mad that it ended so quickly. But now that I've been in the business, I tend to look at the panels so much more carefully, and realize that so much of it is about the art; I don't think I got that before.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

I am an avid reader.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.