Mark Leibovich Quotes

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

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

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

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

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

I am an avid reader.

I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.

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

My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel.

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.