I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.
I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.
I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven't yet read.
Reading a fantasy book is a commitment...a commitment to adventure...a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits...of epicness.
You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others.
There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader--it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people.
