Will Self Quotes

I read almost everything that comes my way.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

Books are my weakness.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

My twenties were entirely taken up with literature. Entirely.

I've always been a voracious reader.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Reading begets reading.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.