Reading Reluctance Quotes

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

I have to admit that I haven't read any of the books [of George Martin's "Game of Thrones"] and I don't refer to them. Apart from anything else they're very thick [in size] and they frighten me. A terrifying prospect.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.

It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.