I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don’t have a lot. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don’t just flash by but deserve some reflection. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
Reading is so private, and it is often a reader’s habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can’t stay in school forever. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
Sometimes a book I’m reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I’ve missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don’t want to let it go. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class. Bobbie Ann Mason Read Quote
