Reynolds Price Quotes

Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

I don't read a lot of books.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

I don't very often read novels.

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

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

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.

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

I've read the whole 'Divergent' series, the 'Pretty' series. I just read it because I find this stuff interesting to read.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

More modern poetry is written than read.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

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.