I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.
I feed my mind by reading everyday as I feed myself by eating every day.
This book is the book you have just read. It’s done.
I read somewhere once that getting lost is the best way to find yourself.
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.
No. I didn't look at the last few scripts. I didn't want to read them because I'm a 'Breaking Bad' fan. I wanted to experience it with everyone.
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.
