A. B. Yehoshua Quotes

I really don't like to read.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm a very slow reader.

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

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

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

I read three books a week.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.

I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.