Ned Beauman Quotes

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

I don't really read books. Wish I did.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.