Alvaro Enrigue Quotes

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

I would read all day if I could.

Of all things I liked books best.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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

I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

I'm sure it came as no surprise to my friends and family when I became an illustrator and then a writer because, from about the age of five, I was one of those children who always had his nose in a book.

I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!