Any Quote by Nicholson Baker

When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.

— Tony Dungy

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music…

— Graeme Murphy

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

— Suzanne Farrell

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

— Joan Armatrading

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on…

— Diana Gabaldon

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to…

— Paul Auster

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling…

— Richard Elman

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out…

— Patton Oswalt

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.

— Joan Armatrading