I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.
I would rather be dead than not read
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
I find I'm waking up really early now, just to read. Waking up at ungodly hours. But I try to keep up, religiously. When I was a kid, it used to be a book a day. Then a book a week. Now it's like a book every two weeks. But I read every day.
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.
To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel, really.
I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.
I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.
