Daniel Tammet Quotes

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory. I might mention novels by Nabokov and Calvino and Tolkien on one occasion, by Fitzgerald and Baldwin and E.B. White on another. Camus often features, as do Tolstoy, Borges, Morrison and Manto.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

I don't read fiction at all.

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.