“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.” YearsBookThreeReadingFictionFourCarAmountBedFairsNonfictionDesksBack And Forth Author:James Patterson
“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.” RealSeemsTodayValuesLiteratureHouseCitiesFictionDisciplineFairsTraditionLonelyMilesCraftsFortyRoughSheepCandyPointlessSkullsCottonAthensMulesArcadiaQuillsCotton Candy Author:Alexander Theroux
“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.” MayDoeCharacterSeemsAmericaCertainFictionUnited StatesGracePaintingTerribleFairsEmptyMarkCloudsWitMeritLightningSculptureEloquenceOutlinesOverflowDerivativesBeholderVases Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.” ShouldBelieveChurchPayFictionCostMembersFairsPropertyIncludingVariousDoctrineAbsurdPropagandaTaxationItemsSuperstitiousChurch Members Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we might be able to make some of [what I've read in science fiction books] come true.” ThinkingKnowsBookMightAbleFictionAmountFairsScience Fiction Author:Richard Branson