Prue Leith Quotes

I buy way too many books.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

I always look for a bookshop wherever I go.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

I read a lot for me. But I'm not one of those people who gets 'The New York Times' book review and runs out and buys 10 books and is done with them and passing them out to friends, you know, two weeks later.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

I try to read 20 books a year.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

I'm a bookworm, so I read about a book a month.

My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!