Monica Ali Quotes

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

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

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

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.