Virginia Woolf Quotes

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

Quit counting time and start making time count

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books, it's actually really wonderful. I tend to have that reaction: I don't want to read it if everyone thinks it's cool. It was a really interesting insight into being young and male. Now that made me feel really thankful for my boyfriend and really thankful because he wasn't like that protagonist, but I know so many people who are like that protagonist.

The big problem in America is that everyone is spending 2-3 hours a day watching TV. If you spend that same amount of time reading, you'll be in the top 1% of whatever your field is.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

I haven't got time for the pain.

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?'