I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.
We’re going to carry our books in our breast pocket. They only thing is it will not look like a book.
Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.
There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.
Reading about myself on 'Perez Hilton' was kind of the weirdest thing ever.
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.
I love deliberately badly written books.
