Charles Stross Quotes

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'

As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

A man is known by the books he reads.

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.