I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
And you love to read, you love to escape, right?
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
I mostly read on airplanes and right before sleep.
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.
I don't know that I read more than the average person. I don't think I do very much. I tend to read more when I'm on holiday. That's when I can go through books like you wouldn't believe. I read a bit of everything, but the novel has always been very important to me.
There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
For 'Luke Cage,' of course, I was familiar with Power Man and Iron Fist. I read the comics. That was really more stuff that you read for fun. It wasn't that you read either of those comics for profound moments, although they have profound moments.
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. It's perfectly okay to take a book, read it, have a good time, giggle and laugh - and turn off the TV. I love that.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.
