Anthony Doerr Quotes

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

I try to read 20 books a year.

None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it.

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

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.

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

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

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

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.

There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

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.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.

I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.

I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

I try to get through a book every two weeks.