If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.
I read a lot of detective novels.
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.