It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.
When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.
Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe, "How do you like Gaboriau?" "I like him very much indeed!" Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.
I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.
We don’t read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
