Eoin Colfer Quotes

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

I'm a voracious reader.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

I was a reader before I was a writer - one of those kids who walked home from school with a book up to my face, about to fall in the proverbial pothole because I couldn't see where I was going. And now I'm one of those people whose books are triple shelved and who can't go anywhere without carrying two titles - one that I'm reading and one backup.

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

I buy way too many books.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Books are my weakness.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.