To read too many books is harmful.
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
I know not how to abstain from reading.
I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.
The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
I must read. I must read. I must read.
Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.
Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.
I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!
I can't take just one book with me anywhere.
I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'
