When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
