Sally Rooney Quotes

I don't very often read novels.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

As a reader, I read quite widely.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

I never even had the time to read novels.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.

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