I cannot live without books.
I wanted to do comic books. . . as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought I should do something else! So I went to a film school when I was seventeen and came out when I was nineteen.
. . . But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books. . . When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better. ' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.
My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.
We read books to find out who we are.
Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.
Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
When I was your age, television was called books.
There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records do that for people, that’s the greatest compliment I could ever receive. That’s one of the reasons making music is so important to me, because there’s a very strange emotional reach. For me—more than books or movies or other things—music is like a mainline to your heart.
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
My books are so tame!
I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.