I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.