I don't read much of anything online.
People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
We'd had books in my house growing up, but we had never had anything like lectures. I had never written an essay for my mother. I had never taken an exam. Because I was working a lot as a kid, I just hadn't elected to read that much.
I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.
I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.
Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.
I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.
I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.
