Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.
Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.
The printed page was like wine to me.
Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.
I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
I love great writing.
Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
I love Javier Marias; I love his novel 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me.'
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.
I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.
