For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world... →
Patricia Briggs
He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought... →
Matthew Bright
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
Susie Bright
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century... →
Geraldine Brooks
Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.
Bobby Brown
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC... →
Chester Brown
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Helen Gurley Brown
Reading is my greatest luxury.
Louise Brown
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and... →
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne