I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.
Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.
I didn't read a serious book until I was 19.
Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.