I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.
Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand.
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen
[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.
But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of it. I like the fast pace and that you can't put them down.
