Neil Gaiman Quotes

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I'm a bookworm.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember that the children's books were in the right-hand corner near the floor. Often when I went there, I was the only visitor.

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I'm always reading something.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

I am a bookworm.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

I've always been a big reader.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

I'm actually not a big reader.