I don't really read a lot. I got a few Booker Prize books and some others and thought I'd try this but quite quickly I just stick them down. I do like some Stephen King books but with some of them I just put them down as well. But I'm like that with telly stuff as well and films or music.
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.
I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.
I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
I rarely read children's books.
I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.
There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
