Nicholson Baker Quotes

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

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

I'm a lousy reader.

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.

The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it stops people even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week.

'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing. Choosing a project is an organic process where I'm taken in by the character and storyline, not the genre, whether fantasy or gritty and raw.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

If I'm really immersed in a story, I try to finish it in a few days. If it's a longer work, then it would take a few months.

My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.