Francis Spufford Quotes

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'

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

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

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

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 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 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.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

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

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.