Sidney Poitier Quotes

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

I never even had the time to read novels.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

I rarely read children's books.

I am an avid reader.

I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

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

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

I don't read fiction at all.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

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.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

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 myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.