In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with... →
David Hackworth
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses Hadas
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
Margaret Haddix
I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the... →
Mark Haddon
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent... →
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton... →
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff... →
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from... →
It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that... →
'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.
Petra Haden