Quotes About Reading

Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.

In the offseason I allow my body to recover, my mind to recover. I like to be with my family, to read books, and know what is going on in the world, to understand how people think.

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped.

Ebooks had to happen.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.

If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.

When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

I like reading reviews. If they're clearly hating on you, I try not to read that deeply. But if they really are trying to understand, it's interesting.

I grew up in a haunted house, reading Dr. Seuss.

Since reading 'Sophie's Choice,' I have been haunted by the agonizing idea of choosing between two children.

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.