Michel Faber Quotes

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

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

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I read three books a week.

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old.

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

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.

I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.