The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Reading is such a huge part of my life.
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.
I've never adapted a book I didn't love.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.
I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.
My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.
I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it was sort of in the middle of me falling deeply in love with literature, and I took a Shakespeare course with a professor who couldn't imagine anything more important than Shakespeare.
My passion for books has changed my life.
If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.
