Anna Quindlen Quotes

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Reading was and still is my real joy.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

What's the reason I'm playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that's it. I don't do it because of the money. I don't do it because of the fame. I just do it because I love it, and I do it for my family because my family enjoys it.

I play football because it the best thing on earth for me.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I even love the smell of books.

You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Everything I do that I'm enthusiastic about. This is genuine enthusiasm. If I don't - I mean I've done other projects that I have not been a fan of until I realized I was doing it and I wasn't really there. And I don't do those anymore.

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!

It's the only thing I really enjoy - so fresh, even now that I'm doing the new sampling. I'm dying to go to the factory, which is like nobody's idea of fun. But it's mine.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.