David McCullough Quotes

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

I read a lot of detective novels.

I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I was in fifth grade or something and very proud of being in the adult fiction aisles. I tore through 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles.'

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

On a trip to Cabo San Lucas, I was obsessed with Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History.' We were staying at the Esperanza hotel doing all sorts of lovely things, but I couldn't wait to get back to the book at night.

I've read a thousand private-eye novels.

Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give a good thrill, but it's rarely a comfortable one.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

We're so used to seeing Agatha Christie's work on screen that going back to the original is a real joy.

I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.

I like to read fiction.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!