“Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.”

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”

“I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.”

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”

“I just read and read and read. … I have always enjoyed reading.”

“I must read.
I must read.
I must read.”

“I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

“If I couldn't sleep, I could read.”

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”