Eudora Welty Quotes

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading have been closely associated.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

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

On a trip to Cabo San Lucas, I was obsessed with Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History.' We were staying at the Esperanza hotel doing all sorts of lovely things, but I couldn't wait to get back to the book at night.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!

I've always loved books.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

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

I read a lot of lot non-demanding fiction.