Margaret Haddix Quotes

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

Morning is the best time to see movies.

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

I wish I had more time to read.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.

I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.

It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

My biggest thrill in life is to read in the afternoon until I fall asleep and take a nap.

I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.