Alice Munro Quotes

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I never stopped reading.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

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

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

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

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

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'm always reading books.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

Read much, but not many books.

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 love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I don't read a lot of books.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I read three books a week.

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