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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

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.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.