I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.
When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.
Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.
When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.
I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.
I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we'd like, but we can still make a stab at it.
I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.
I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.
Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to have the time.
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.
