I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.
Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!
