Margaret Drabble Quotes

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

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

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

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

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

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

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

Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get away with it while I'm doing treatment, I'm reading.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

I can't exist without books.

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.