Quotes About Reading

I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

I like to cook, I like nature, I like to read. I do like to shop, don't get me wrong, every now and then.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

'Sharp Objects' is honestly one of my most exciting reading experiences.

When I turned 40, I noticed I couldn't read the label on the back of a jar of food - it turned to be the result of presbyopia where the lens of the eye loses its ability to focus on near objects due to age. So now I wear multifocal contact lenses - and they've been a real blessing.

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

I'm obsessed with books.

I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.

I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.