Amy Tan Quotes

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

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

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

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

I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

I'm actually not a big reader.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.

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

I don't read a lot of books.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

I don't think I read an entire book in high school.

I'm always reading books.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

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 am not a big reader to begin with.

I never stopped reading.