Alexandra Fuller Quotes

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

I am very adventurous with authors, but not very with genres.

I've always loved books.

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

I even love the smell of books.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

A good book is an event in my life.