Lena Dunham Quotes

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

I would read all day if I could.

Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.

I am a bookworm.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.

My passion for books has changed my life.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

I encourage a lot of young women to read. I tell them that it will change their lives.

I love reading, I'm such a bookworm.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog - undervalued and undermined - even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

Falling in love is not the only adventure worthy of a young woman.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.