Evangeline Lilly Quotes

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

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

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

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 been a big reader.

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.

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

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.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.