Robert Motherwell Quotes

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

I'm a voracious reader.

I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.

I have been a voracious reader.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

I am more or less reading all the time.

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.