It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
I'm a much better writer for being a father.
I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.