Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

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

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

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

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

I'm a voracious reader.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

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

Books are my weakness.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

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.

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.

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

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.