“Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.”

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I accomplished something, became a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on.”

“... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful bookis one of the main reasons I read;but it doesn't happen every timeor even every other time,and when it does happen,I am truly beside myself.”

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”

“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.”