Mallory Ortberg Quotes

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.

I love PG Wodehouse.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

I'm a big Stephen King fan.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.