Reading Tastes Quotes

I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.

I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

I didn't really like superheroes. I liked monsters and war comics.

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.