Syd Barrett Quotes

I never stopped reading.

I don't read a lot of books.

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

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

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

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

I'm actually not a big reader.

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

Growing up, as a kid, I loved to read. I liked to read books that were above my range. I always tried to aim higher and read difficult books.

In 2011, I didn't read a single book.

I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.