Reading Preference Quotes

I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.

Will I switch to E-reading? I won't, mainly because I love the look and feel of books - particularly hardbacks. I love them enough to put up with the minor hassles of lugging them around and maneuvering them in my lap and having to set them aside while I eat my cheeseburger.

I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

More and more, I tried to make comics in the way I like to read comics, and I found that when I read comics that are really densely packed with text, it may be rewarding when I finally do sit down and read it, but it never is going to be the first I'm going to read, and I never am fully excited to just sit down and read that comic.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

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

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.