Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes

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

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

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

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

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

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!

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.

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.

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

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Habits change into character.

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

I'm a voracious reader.

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 think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.'

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

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

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.

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

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.