I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
Margaret Atwood
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
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... →
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my... →
Edward St Aubyn
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Jean M. Auel
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.