Reading Choice Quotes

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

I’m rather apt to read old books than new.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.

I don't read fiction at all.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write them. And if people want to read them, that's great.

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

I don't want to read a book that's depressing.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.