It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.
I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.
I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.