Lisa See Quotes

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.

I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.

I always seem to be reading several books at once.

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.

I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.