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Quotes About Reading

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
~ Isobelle Carmody
I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
~ Richard Attenborough
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
~ Mark Haddon
Reading has always been the great love of my life.
~ Darren Shan
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
~ Rabih Alameddine
The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.
~ Ian Rankin
I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.
~ Miriam Margolyes
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
~ Brian Lumley
I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.
~ Katherine Kelly
I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
~ Carla Gugino
'True Grit' is one of the few books my sons let me read to them - and paid attention to - when they were younger.
~ George Pelecanos
My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.
~ Tim Ferriss
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
~ Barbara Park
'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.
~ Mary Nightingale
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
~ Joseph Jacobs
I sometimes buy the Daily Mail and hide it in my Guardian.
~ Sheila Hancock
I read the Guardian when I can get it, but I have to admit I mostly turn to the sport.
~ Isa Guha
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests.
~ Lawrence Kutner
I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.
~ J. August Richards
Literature has guided me through my whole life.
~ Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up.
~ Adrian Pasdar
The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.
~ Anthony Newley
I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.
~ Gulzar