I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes read shy
Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go. Bobbie Ann Mason backbookdeeply share on social
In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there. Bobbie Ann Mason americacarrycountry Change image and share on social
Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better. Bobbie Ann Mason brucejobspringsteen Change image and share on social
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school. Daniel Tammet amountconsiderablyfiction share on social
Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so. Frank Oz ambiguousexperiencefeel share on social
