reading habits quotes

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.

I cannot live without books.

I don’t read books much.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‚You Can’t Go Home Again‘ and ‚Look Homeward, Angel.‘

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.

I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

Ebooks had to happen.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

Electronic books are junk.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I’ve just always been a reader.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I don’t generally read reviews.