Vincent Kartheiser Quotes

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I am glad to say that I used to read a lot right from a young age.

The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.