Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I never read one book at a time.

I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.

I always have a few different books going at once.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

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

I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

I'm a bookworm, so I read about a book a month.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

I read three books a week.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

I used to read three books a day, sometimes.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

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

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.