Gary Paulsen Quotes

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

I'm a voracious reader.

I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

What can I say? I'm a book junkie.

People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.