J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

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

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

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

I never stopped reading.

I read books more than I go out.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

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 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.

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 don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.

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.

Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

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.

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

Some people don't want to be helped, they want to do what they're doing, it's all they know.

You cannot force anybody to honour somebody. You can only ask.

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

I don't think I read an entire book in high school.

I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.