“I read like the flame reads the wood.”

“Some people like to read their bibles in the Hebrew; some like to read it in the Greek; I like to read it in the Holy Spirit”

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

“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.”

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

“But what first motivated me wasn’t anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.”

“I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.”

“I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly.”

“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.”

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