All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book.
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
