Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

I don't read a lot of books.

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

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

As a historically voracious reader - pre-baby, I averaged a book every week or two, and when I was a kid, I'd routinely read a book a day - I never understood how some people could not read. When I heard people say they didn't have time to read, in my head, I simultaneously pitied and ridiculed them: there was always time to read.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

I read three books a week.

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

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

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

I've always been a big reader.