At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework. Hartmut Michel Read Quote
I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn’t really have a story. Drew Roy Read Quote
I got this book called ‘How to Write the Popular Song.’ I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it. Leon Russell Read Quote
Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks. Daniel Levitin Read Quote
Mark Prince is a massive inspiration to me, he has been since I started boxing. Anthony Yarde Read Quote
The book I’m working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it. Matthew Pearl Read Quote
In fiction, you don’t invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction. Amitava Kumar Read Quote
