Ellen Datlow Quotes

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

I read a lot for me. But I'm not one of those people who gets 'The New York Times' book review and runs out and buys 10 books and is done with them and passing them out to friends, you know, two weeks later.

When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date. When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''

Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

I am very adventurous with authors, but not very with genres.

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I found I'd left one at home.

I never read one book at a time.

Of course I want to add more titles all the time.

As a reader, I read quite widely.

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.