Richard Wright Quotes

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Books are a narcotic.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

I read a lot of fiction.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

I read all the books for 'Twilight.'

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

I am not a fan of books.

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality and been absorbed into another.

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

I enjoy reading books.