Quotes About Reading

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.