Diane Setterfield Quotes

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

I've always been a voracious reader.

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

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

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

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

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

I'm a voracious reader.

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.'