Personal Reading Quotes

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

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

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

As a reader, I read quite widely.

I don't know that I read more than the average person. I don't think I do very much. I tend to read more when I'm on holiday. That's when I can go through books like you wouldn't believe. I read a bit of everything, but the novel has always been very important to me.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.