I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I’m still looking for the door.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
It’s true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
I tend not to think about audience when I’m writing. Many people who read ‘The Giver’ now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
I don’t read young adult or children’s books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I’m aware of what’s out there. But I tend not to read the books.
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
I am currently reading, “The Broker” by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better.
Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
I don’t always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.