Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

I don't very often read novels.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

I am an avid reader.

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

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

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

I'll always be reading a good book. I don't have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of get hooked on, reading genre books or anything like that. It's just really anything anyone kind of recommends or is going around or I hear is good.

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

As a reader, I read quite widely.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

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

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

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.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

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

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.