Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works.
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold And freshen in this air of withering sweetness;
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you.
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.
