When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.
I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.
I used to read three books a day, sometimes.
I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.
Senator Patrick Moynihan wrote more books than most people have ever read.
Tim Russert had worked on the Senator’s staff.
If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.
I read three books a week.
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.
I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.
