Top 100 I Like To Read Quotes
#1. What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.
Jillian Medoff
#2. I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.
Anna Wintour
#4. I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
Esperanza Spalding
#5. Why are people so afraid of thinking? Why don't they ever leave time to reflect? There's nothing wrong with tranquility; nor emptiness, vertigo, or even unhappiness. I think that these things are the first steps to precede the birth of a new thought. This is why I like to read.
Almudena Solana
#6. I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.
Marv Levy
#7. Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#8. I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.
Bruno Tonioli
#9. I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
Rainn Wilson
#10. I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.
Kourtney Kardashian
#11. I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.
Bill Gates
#12. I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel
#13. I like to read them and write them, I say shyly. Hello, my name is Sparrow and I am a nerd.
Willow Aster
#14. Truman had been sitting in a chair in the bedroom with several new books stacked on a table beside him. Did the President like to read himself to sleep at night, McCormick asked. "No, young man," said Truman, "I like to read myself awake." Thomas
David McCullough
#15. The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
Patrick Ness
#16. A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read...
Suzanne Steele
#17. I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.
Joy Fielding
#18. I like to read. I go to movies quite a bit. I often go to see friends in theater productions. I hike, stretch and work out. I like to sing. I love going back to acting class and working on new material.
Juliet Landau
#19. You? Favorite thing to do?" "Um ... read, I guess. I'm a nerd." "I like to read too, that doesn't make you a nerd. Unless you're calling me one.
Shelly Crane
#20. I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
Beverly Cleary
#21. I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.
Glenn Branca
#22. I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'
Zach Galifianakis
#23. I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.
Howard Shore
#24. Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both.
Dawn Huntsman
#25. I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!
Cassandra Clare
#26. I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?
Howard Shore
#27. I write in my books what I like to read, I write in my articles what I like to change, and I post on my pages what brings a smile to my friends' faces.
~Ica Iova~
Ica Iova
#28. I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
Richard Lewis
#29. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.
James Howe
#30. I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am.
Heidi Montag
#31. I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.
John Irving
#32. I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.
Victoria Chang
#33. I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Wesley Snipes
#34. I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
Adam Mansbach
#36. I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
Penn Jillette
#37. I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.
George Eliot
#38. I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?
Scott Rolen
#39. I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
Xavi
#40. I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
Jo Brand
#41. I like to read fairytales. They make my imagination go wild, and I wander in fairyland.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Books," I say firmly. "I'm crazy about books."
He laughs. "Okay. That's cool."
"I like to read them and write them," I say shyly.
Hello, my name is Sparrow and I am a nerd.
"He lifts his eyebrows, and his eyes land on my mouth. "God, everything you say is hot.
Willow Aster
#43. I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
Karen Thompson Walker
#44. I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
Rachel Kushner
#45. I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.
Manny Montana
#46. I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.
Tyler Hilton
#47. My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.
Betsy Byars
#48. I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read
Stephen King
#49. I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.
Lee Smith
#50. I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
S.E. Hinton
#51. I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
Anne Rice
#52. My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.
John Ridley
#54. I write what I like to read. This guarantees me at least one fan.
Johnny Worthen
#55. I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.
Phil Keoghan
#56. 'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
Daniel Handler
#57. I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.
Shandy L. Kurth
#58. Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
Smith Wigglesworth
#59. 'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.
Jason Aaron
#60. There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.
Willow Smith
#61. The Internet gives you access to a lot of material, and it's fun to sit and read. I go to something like Wikipedia and look at different topics ... I find the subject fascinating. I like to read about concepts and mathematicians.
Viswanathan Anand
#62. I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
Joe Strummer
#63. When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said, "Novels," and she said, "You should be writing them then." Memoir never even occurred to me. I think I was afraid of nonfiction and I was afraid of navel-gazing, and of being seen.
Melissa Febos
#64. My depth of purse is not so great
Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
That merely buying doth elate:
The books I buy I like to read:
Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
The books I read - I like to buy.
A. Edward Newton
#65. I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.
Alex D. Linz
#66. I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.
Joshua Roman
#67. I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, 'Twilight,' also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families - real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.
Wynter Gordon
#68. Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.
Jessica McNamee
#69. I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
Kid Rock
#70. I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.
Marilynne Robinson
#71. I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.
Sprague Grayden
#72. I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.
Jamaica Kincaid
#73. Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.
Jonathan Brandis
#74. I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
Elizabeth George
#75. I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
Maud Welzen
#76. I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.
Jen Selinsky
#77. I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.
Jill Scott
#80. I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
Alice Munro
#81. I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
Anne Lamott
#82. I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.
Nicolas Cage
#83. I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'
Mos Def
#84. I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.
Hope Solo
#85. I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.
Trish Stratus
#86. I like to read either in motion or in water ... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.
Walter Mosley
#87. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.
Adriana Locke
#89. If I was alone I'd find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it'd look like I wanted to be alone.
Julie Anne Peters
#90. I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.
James Jones
#91. I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.
Noah Baumbach
#92. It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
Garrett Hedlund
#93. Sometimes I'll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I'll flip the book over to look at the cover to see who wrote it, only to discover that it feels like it was written for me because it was written by me.
Jarod Kintz
#94. I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.
Gloria Steinem
#95. I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters,
but I always seem to lay us out bare.
Sorry for the poems.
Unknown
#96. I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters
#97. Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.
Alexis Bledel
#98. He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them.
Paula Marantz Cohen
#99. It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.
Nancy Pickard
#100. I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book
Jeff Lindsay
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