Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

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

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read in peace.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.

I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of years, I try to give it to someone who will.

I read a lot for me. But I'm not one of those people who gets 'The New York Times' book review and runs out and buys 10 books and is done with them and passing them out to friends, you know, two weeks later.

The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.