Iris Johansen Quotes

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

I am a compulsive writer.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

I'm a voracious reader.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

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 such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

I've always been a voracious reader.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

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

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

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

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

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

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

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.