Quotes About Reading

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

I start my day with a hot water and lemon routine. I meditate. And I take my problems lightly, like my mother always said: treat them like helium balloons and let them go. I devour a lot of books to feed my mind.

I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

I'm a huge fan of Beverly Cleary.

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels, which goes to prove that if I can embrace it, so can anyone.

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.

I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

I'm kind of like a tween. I've read all 'Hunger Games' books in three days.

I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me.

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don't really like that kind of book.' It's akin to marking yourself as proudly poorly read.

She is reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. A sci-fi girl. Abused women like escapism, of course.

One snowy April night, I felt so lonely. I was drinking warm amaretto with Bleecker and reading, lying on the floor as the snow came down, listening to old scratchy albums, like Nick and I used to

How do you keep a thousand books in one room and then call the room a den?

Writers read. Writers read promiscuously, aggressively and relentlessly.