I had a student who aspired to be a writer, but couldn't
name the last book he had read, especially not the last
NOVEL he had read.

I suggested that a musician who never listened to music would
be considered insane. Or a baseball player who never watched
a baseball game. Or an actor who never, ever went to the
theater or saw a movie. Yet he wanted to do something that
he didn't do himself.

He thought I was a cranky bitch. Yes, I am!