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Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.