I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.
I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.