Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I am an avid reader.

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

I love reading, I'm such a bookworm.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

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

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

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

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

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

I've just always been a reader.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

Reading begets reading.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.