Sonam Kapoor Quotes

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

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

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

My head was always in books.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

A writer needs a life of introspection.