Sonya Hartnett Quotes

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

I don't read Science Fiction.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating, even things not-to-my-taste. Now I am less open. I will decide after a few pages if I want to stay in the world of the book, and if I don't, I put it down. I have less time left.

My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

A man is known by the books he reads.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

I don't read fiction at all.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.