Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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.

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 have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

I'm a voracious reader.

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

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 read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

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

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

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

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

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

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

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

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.

I've always been a voracious reader.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

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

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

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

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.