Quotes About Books

I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?

I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'

The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I'm an avid biography reader.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

I'm a lousy reader.

I was a precocious reader.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm not really a big reader.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I've always been a big reader.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.