Jacob Epstein Quotes

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.

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

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it.

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 remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.

I read and enjoy just about anything I can get my hands on.

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

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

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

I've always been a voracious reader.