Margaret Stohl Quotes

Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.

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 am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

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

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

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

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

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

I'm obsessed with books.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

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.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

I don't read. I don't like to read 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. It's not my style.