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Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.


Michael Dirda

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DODIE SMITH I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that i...
MICHAEL DIRDA I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.
STEPHEN J. DUBNER Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my reader...
R. A. SALVATORE I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concer...
DYLAN MORAN In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe...
EVELYN LAU I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are alwa...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON I spend a lot of time reading.
BILL GATES I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ...
AL YANKOVIC After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau...
IRIS CHANG A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if...
KAJOL I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.
BENJAMIN PERCY I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stor...
FRAZIER GLENN MILLER I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.
GROUCHO MARX I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But...
ELLEN POTTER I have a problematic relationship with some of Michael Moore's work. There's no such job as a standu...
JAMES ROCCHI I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did n...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do thing...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of ...
JANET FITCH Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
JANE AUSTEN The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I ma...
CANDACE CAMP I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
JEN SELINSKY You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of in...
KENNETH GOLDSMITH You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you goi...
JENNIFER DONNELLY If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have m...
ZOE SALDANA You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely
SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lo...
ZOSIA MAMET I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence...
CHANG-RAE LEE Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or d...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care...
JAMES ROLLINS Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the st...
FRANCINE PASCAL I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
KEREN ANN At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a...
TRACY KIDDER When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef...
GARY JENNINGS I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle...
ALICE WALKER The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our l...
PHILLIP ADAMS If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth readi...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the...
PATRICK WHITE In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearie...
DAVID SHIELDS I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.
DAN KENNEDY I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genr...
SAMUEL R. DELANY I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about m...
MONICA ALI This is how I passed my time was reading his book.
CARLOS MARTINEZ I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to...
ALEX TIZON I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
TASLIMA NASRIN The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
WILKIE COLLINS As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a n...
JON KRAKAUER Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.'...
DAN BROWN Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
ZARA COX It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.
KAMAND KOJOURI I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel fr...
JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE The time I used to spend playing tennis I now use for reading or doing embroidery.
ANNA LEE Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappea...
ALICE HOFFMAN ... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.
LISA KLEYPAS I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormou...
DAN BROWN When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my ...
DANIEL ALARCON I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as...
NATSUO KIRINO I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.
THOMAS PERRY It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at...
JONATHAN FRANZEN When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ...
JON KATZ Since Michael is not listed with a wife in 1880, I must conclude he did not leave a widow or childre...
KENT WILLIS Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It'...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. ...
ILYA ILYIN I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girl...
SARAH REES BRENNAN Our members have worked inordinate amounts of overtime to meet unprecedented levels of production.
RICHARD LAVERTY Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral th...
RICK YANCEY I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a l...
KYLE SCHMID This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate...
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AMY WINEHOUSE One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH I really enjoyed writing the first book. And since then it's been great. I've written every word of ...
MARIO BATALI Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
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PETER MORGAN When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as...
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NATHANIEL PHILBRICK All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea...
KATHRYN MAGENDIE I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.
DAVID SCHWIMMER I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn'...
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TONY KANAAN I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I...
RAMI MALEK I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, b...
ANN HOOD As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
BEN GIBBARD Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To ...
DAVID BERGEN In my book, either a business grows, or it goes down. I want to be number one.
MAGGIE HARDY MAGERKO I have always liked it, it is still my favorite book. I do not like my writing, but I like this book...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writin...
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MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN