Annoyed Quote by Margaret Atwood

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly…

— Jackie French

What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And…

— Richard LaGravenese

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every…

— Jonathan Franzen

I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner,…

— Anonymous

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I…

— Gracie Allen

When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better…

— Karin Slaughter

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never…

— Aaron Swartz

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading…

— Nick Hornby

Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my…

— Charles Stross