Caroline Polachek Quotes

I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

I always seem to be reading several books at once.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

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.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.