According to John Irving

I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed. I don’t read anything electronically. I don’t write electronically, either — except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter. Now (for the last two books) I write all my drafts by hand. It’s the right speed for me — slow.

Veteran novelist John Irving's response upon being asked where, when and how he likes to read and whether he prefers to read/write electronically.

Yet another question--what category of literary work he likes most--begets an Irvingesque response:

I hate the certainty with which literary works are categorized into one or another “genre”; this tempts me to say that my “favorite” genre is something not easily categorized — such as same-sex foreplay in gardens, with dogs watching at a distance.

via the NYT