Book Quote by Jesmyn Ward

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole…

— Billy Burke

I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off…

— Billie Piper

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those,…

— Doris Lessing

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books,…

— Mary Roach

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I…

— Tana French

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow…

— Anthony Hopkins

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that…

— Anatole Broyard

“I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and jiggle my…

— Dan Chaon