I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.
For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.
One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.