Books Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

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

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at…

— Samuel Johnson

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had…

— Tom Robbins

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

— John Malkovich

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier…

— Louis L'Amour

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind…

— Jaume Cabre

Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write. I just…

— Stephenie Meyer

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

— Adriana Trigiani

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on…

— Jamaica Kincaid