Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
They're book addicts.
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.
Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while...and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.
Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing.
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
