Quotes About Reading

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'

I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

Among books, one of my early favorites was Gurunath Naik, a Marathi novelist. His mysteries were very popular in the 70s.

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

I don't very often read novels.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.