Rose Macaulay Quotes

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

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 love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I like short stories.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

I don't very often read novels.

I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I read the newspapers avidly; it is my one form of continuous fiction.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

I don't read fiction.

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

I get transported when I read books.

I like to read fiction.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.