Quotes About Reading

It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester. - Your parents must be so proud you can read. - They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was destined to see the book. I read it all in one go while I was in the shop. The book was mind-blowing.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn't concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn't me.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it was: 'This looks like it might be fun so let's do it.' There were a lot of castles, art galleries, museums and mountains to climb.

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

I like feel-good fiction and mysteries.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.