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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or...

Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to...

Quotes by Karen Traviss

If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.

Quotes by Karen Joy Fowler

When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.

Quotes by Karan Mahajan

Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

Quotes by Karan Mahajan

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

Quotes by Kameron Hurley

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

Quotes by Justin Long

When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading carefully-worded essays, when a 5 minute in-person chat would resolve the whole thing.

Quotes by Justin Rosenstein

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

Quotes by Julie Kagawa

When I auditioned for The Black Canary, I only knew I was reading for a new recruit on team 'Arrow.' It wasn't until I'd booked the role that they told me who I'd be playing.

Quotes by Juliana Harkavy

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

Quotes by Julianne Hough

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.

Quotes by Julia Sweeney

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Quotes by Julian Barnes

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Quotes by Julian Barnes

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Quotes by Juan Goytisolo

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

Quotes by Joshua Cohen

Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.

Quotes by Joshua Cohen

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull...

Quotes by Joshua Foer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is reading described as a lifelong love in these quotes?
Definitely — one speaker puts it about as strongly as possible: "I seemed to have been born reading." It suggests reading isn't just a hobby for them, but something that feels innate. For more on passions like this, see our Love quotes.
Do these quotes connect reading to other interests?
Yes — one speaker lists it alongside several passions, "gardens, art, music and reading," adding they have "eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books." Reading here is one part of a broader curious mind.
Is reading described as important in a child's education?
Yes, quite strongly. One quote warns that skipping it has real consequences: teaching an instrument "without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand." For more on personal growth themes like this, see our Book quotes.
Where do good ideas come from, according to these quotes?
For one speaker, mostly from reading: "Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show." It's a reminder that consuming stories and information can directly fuel creativity.
Where can I find more content about the joy of reading?
Our Like and Always collections both touch on the everyday habits people love, reading included.

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