Can't Stop Reading Quotes

#1. I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

Sara Sheridan

#2. The Lord has taught me so much through books. Maybe that's why I can't stop reading

Amanda Penland

#3. When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

Karl Urban

#4. I love your books when I read them I can't stop reading them.

Charlie Higson

#5. Then I started reading this timetable I had in my pocket. Just stop lying. Once I get started, I can go on for hours if I feel like it. No kidding. Hours.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.

Tony Bishop

#7. When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

David Nicholls

#8. I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money.

Dave Barry

#9. But cricket was no mere game. Cricket was important. [S]he could never help reading about cricket. [S]he read the scores in the stop press first, then how it was a hot day; then about a murder case.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Keep Reading.
Keep Writing.
Keep Pushing yourself!
And never stop learning!
We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".

Darynda Jones

#11. We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain

Roberto Bolano

#12. I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#13. The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.

Paul Kropp

#14. I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

Lauren Weisberger

#15. Holder: "Why'd you stop talking?"
Sky: "Talking? Holder, I'm reading. There's a difference. And from the looks of it, you haven't been paying a lick of attention."
Holder: "Oh, I've been paying attention. To your mouth. Maybe not to the words coming out of it, but definitely to your mouth.

Colleen Hoover

#16. A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Roxane Gay

#17. The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

Mark Batterson

#18. No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down
impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Muriel Rukeyser

#19. By reading God's Word, we can easily begin to live an anxiety-free life. God grants us freedom in Him when we stop worrying. He is our refuge; we should take comfort in Him, not doubt Him.

George Papakonstantinou

#20. Did I say 'aspect ratio'? Yes I did. And if you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, there's a very good chance your television at home is set to the wrong aspect ratio, in which case I'd like you to stop reading right now and punch yourself hard in the kidneys.

Charlie Brooker

#21. 'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other studies. I would go to the library even on nice warm weekends and just lock myself up. I think that was the first time that I felt transformed by a book.

Jonathan Dee

#22. Stop reading so much and go think.

Angela Duckworth

#23. Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and reading about it so much and to start watching and listening.

Frederick Buechner

#24. To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.

Anonymous

#25. In the book i'm reading (The Principal) the main chareter best friend has to go to a differnt school. I can picture them waiting at the bus stop together crying.

Jerry Spinelli

#26. Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#27. Ignoring me, he read the title of the book I kept firmly between our gazes. "Lover awakened. " He nestled his head on my shoulder. "Weren't you reading this book last month? "
"No."
He raised a brow.
"Yes. I can't stop. I've read it twenty-seven times in a row.

Darynda Jones

#28. Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV.

Debra Messing

#29. Women will never stop reading books when they can relate to characters and gain insight into their own lives.

Sarah Jo Smith

#30. We can connect with that openness at any time. For instance, right now, for three seconds, just stop reading and pause. If

Pema Chodron

#31. I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.
"I'm no expert," I began, choosing my words carefully. "Well - actually, I am. And I'm pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that.

Richelle Mead

#32. I'm not addicted to books. I can stop reading once I've finished one more chapter.

Jason

#33. My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realise I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

Helene Hanff

#34. Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.

Anthony Bourdain

#35. I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

Ken Follett

#36. Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!

Robert Ahaness

#37. Victor, if you read this stuff, you can save people in the past from drowning. It's like time is a river, and it's nighttime, and you can hear people calling, Help, we're disappearing! So you stop and listen. That's how you save them.

Peter Gould

#38. Sometimes I do readings and people can't stop laughing, but I'm reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It's despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

Alina Bronsky

#39. Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky

#40. I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Patrick Rothfuss

#41. The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

Salman Rushdie

#42. Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!

Mary Alice Monroe

#43. Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Ian McEwan

#44. Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.

Pamela Morris

#45. She really needed to stop reading romantic suspense because now horror stories from authors like Shiloh Walker were on her mind and a little too vivid for what she needed at the moment.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#46. I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.

Chris Raschka

#47. One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.

Neil Gaiman

#48. In tactics, no information is better than too much ... because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

Giovanni Guidetti

#49. Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader ...

Alice Hoffman

#50. People stop thinking when they cease to read.

Denis Diderot

#51. I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

Tariq Ali

#52. There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass.

Charles Bukowski

#53. Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

David Mitchell

#54. It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear

Sherry Thomas

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

Keegan Allen

#56. I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

Mal Peet

#57. While reading Emotionally Wounded Spiritually Strong washing clothes taday I got up to page 52-54 and I had to stop for a sech it brought tears to my eyes to think how the devil had a plan on my family from the beginning. How PPL thought we were the perfect family. Thank God for Jesus.

Tarran Carter

#58. Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open
the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.

Jeanette Winterson

#59. President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.

David Letterman

#60. I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.

Flannery O'Connor

#61. If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

Anne Fadiman

#63. But if you recognize yourself in these pages - if you feel something stirring inside - stop reading immediately. You might be one of us. And

Rick Riordan

#64. The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

Albert Einstein

#65. The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

Fred B. Craddock

#66. Never stop dreaming or reading.

A.B. Shepherd

#67. And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

Azar Nafisi

#68. Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Mark Haddon

#69. Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?

Lea Davey

#70. Books can be viewed as food for the mind

Stop reading and your brain can become anemic

Read junk and your thinking can become malnourished

But handle your diet with books well and your life long learning never stops

Jonathan Frakes

#71. I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

Debra Winger

#72. But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.

Guthrie Govan

#73. Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.

H.L. Stephens

#74. The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

Eoin Colfer

#75. If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

Kanye West

#76. Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

John Green

#77. Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.

Salil Jha

#78. The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading ... just stop.

Michael Wilbon

#79. Stop reading the news for a week; you will see that the world will turn from red to blue!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them to continue a relationship, to continue even reading them. So I must confess that I don't read 'New York' magazine anymore.

Michael Wolf

#81. What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie?
Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

Veronica Roth

#82. I can't belly dance.'
Yes, you can. It's in your fi
'
Will you stop reading my goddamn file!

Jennifer Rardin

#83. He was reading with his mouth open, and he didn't hear me walk across the porch and sit down on the railing opposite his chair.
I kicked his chair with the toe of my shoe. "Stop reading, Mac," I said. "Put down that book. Entertain me." He was reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

J.D. Salinger

#84. Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

Lexi Blake