Thomas Guthrie Quotes

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

I do think all things in moderation. I mean, the thing to me - it actually doesn't bother me very much if people want to read chick lit. But it makes me, you know, sort of disheartened when that's all that people want to read.

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

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

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

I read almost everything that comes my way.

Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

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.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.