Jane Hamilton Quotes

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

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.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

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

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

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

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.

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

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get away with it while I'm doing treatment, I'm reading.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

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

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.