Malcolm Lowry Quotes

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

Overall, people are reading less.

I don't read fiction at all.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.

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

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

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

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

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 don't really read books. Wish I did.

I've always been a big reader.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I’m rather apt to read old books than new.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.