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Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

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

I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.