Robin McKinley Quotes

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

I can't take just one book with me anywhere.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

I'm a voracious reader.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

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've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

I have been a voracious reader.

We live for books.

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.