Amanda Hocking Quotes

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

I'm not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I'm falling asleep. If I'm out at that time, I'll be the one falling asleep at dinner.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

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

My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more.

What can I say? I'm a book junkie.

I can't drink anything after 9 P.M. otherwise I'm up all night.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

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.

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

I like to go to bed early so I can get up early.

I don't have any weird night rituals. I definitely am a ritualistic person... I like to go downstairs and remind my roommate-drummer not to practice early the next morning, so I can sleep in.

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.

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

I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep.

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get away with it while I'm doing treatment, I'm reading.

I usually fall asleep between 11 P.M. - 1 A.M., and I wake up between 6:30 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.