Americans love to read about violence.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.
As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best. He was my model as a kid. If there are people out there that want to write, all you need to do is read 20 of his stories to get an idea what it takes to make a story kick over.
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts. " He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
I don't read reviews.
When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.
I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
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.
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
Don't seek to be published, seek to be read.
There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
I love all the voiceovers I do. I can't remember them all, but I seem to do them all of the time. And there's nothing easier because you just stand and read the script, and you don't have to act the way actors do. You don't have to be made up and put costumes on.
My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life. . . her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.
If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?
