Burton Rascoe Quotes

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I don't read fiction at all.

I don't read fiction.

Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

I tend to read non-fiction.

Do I read her books? Of course.

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love film, but I keep going back to just five or six certain filmmakers. In literature I like Chekhov, for example; I think he's my favorite. And Flaubert - you know, that kind of concision. But I also like Tolstoy; I love those romances that, you know, weigh 500 pounds and take months and months and months to read.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.