Penelope Lively Quotes

Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

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

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Reading begets reading.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

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 used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get away with it while I'm doing treatment, I'm reading.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

They're book addicts.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

I am simply a book drunkard.

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

I cannot live without reading.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.