If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. ~Ray Bradbury
In order to be a good writer, you must be an avid reader. To say I read anything not nailed down wouldn’t be an exaggeration. In fact, the above picture is a snapshot of about a quarter of my large bookcase all of which is that stuffed. And then of course the rest of the books are strewn about my home in some partially-read state.
I love books – the smell of the paper, the weight of it in my hands, the typesetting, the beautiful hard-bounds with a ribbon streaming from the spine, the tattered and beloved paperbacks with folded edges.
I’m also a recent convert to eReading. While it took some getting used to, how can an avid reader like me not adore having 50 books in one little device? The convenience!
The only thing I love more than reading them is writing them!
**Updated July 2011** I have a few book projects coming out later this year, so watch this space.
Interested in these books or in having a ghostwriter get your story just right? Contact me directly at marie AT fourfiftyonemedia DOT com.