Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.