Lloyd Dorfman Quotes

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

I read the newspapers avidly; it is my one form of continuous fiction.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.

I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

The American might be defined as a newspaper-reading animal.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

You can't just buy the sports section of 'The New York Times.' You take the whole paper.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress in the village. She knew that if I moved to the city, I would become corrupted. And I was. I started to read books.