Junot Diaz Quotes

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

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 spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

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

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 grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

I loved school as a kid. I was a bit of a nerd.

When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life.

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

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life.

I grew up your classic nerd who was not good at throwing balls or kicking them. I was good at reading stories by myself. That was my specialty as a child.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

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

I was a nerdy kid.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

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