Reading Interest Quotes

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was 'The Client' by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

It's really important for kids to read right through childhood but I know sometimes it's hard to get them to read. The key is finding something that they're passionate about, and for me it was, and still is rugby, and being healthy and active, and a lot of kids are like that too.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I'm kind of... I'm a sci-fi fan, and I like horror; I'm a genre fan... but fantasy's not really ever something I've gotten into.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

Of all things I liked books best.

I rarely read children's books.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as I start reading, I thought now this is interesting, you know, the hows of what happened, the actual - the actual sinking of the ship.

I'm obsessed with books.

I've always been a big fan of books.