Avid Quote by M.J. Rose

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates…

— Brian Tracy

In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each month. For…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal…

— Dean Koontz

I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.

— Bria Vinaite

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy"…

— Charles Stross

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more…

— Tracy Chevalier

The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out…

— George R. R. Martin

I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.

— Martellus Bennett

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment.…

— Isabel Allende

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for…

— Stephen King

I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I read all…

— Larry Winget

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to…

— Anthony Doerr