Jennifer Egan Quotes

My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

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

I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read - I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure.

One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

The printed page was like wine to me.

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

Read much, but not many works.