Quotes About Learning

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

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

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

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'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I was a precocious reader.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

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.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

I am an avid reader.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.