'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
Clint Eastwood
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well... →
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em... →
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read... →
Roger Ebert
Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the... →
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
Umberto Eco
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye... →
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will... →
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to... →
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.