Paul Auster Quotes

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

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

I'm obsessed with books.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

I seemed to have been born reading.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

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

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

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

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

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

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.