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Win ProjectionsNEWSLETTERSThe PulseDelivering the top stories in sports, Sunday to Friday.See all newslettersPLAYConnections: Sports Edition Connections: Soccer Edition Connections Coach U.S.InternationalCanadaEspa\u00f1ol\u4e2d\u6587Katt Williams Can Explain How He Made an Enemy of Dr. SeussIt\u2019s one of many surprises in \u201cNine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines,\u201d the comedian\u2019s new memoir, and a testimonial to the power of reading.Credit...Rebecca ClarkeSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTShare full articleIn an email interview, he shared his admiration for Jack London, \u201cThe Swiss Family Robinson\u201d and the Torah. SCOTT HELLERHow do you organize your books?By subject matter. I like knowing where to go when I\u2019m looking for something specific. I\u2019ve always looked at books as resources, not decoration. So the shelves have to make sense to me.What book might people be surprised to find on your shelves?Most people probably don\u2019t know that I\u2019m a gardener or how much I genuinely enjoy it, so they might be surprised by how many gardening books I have. There\u2019s something about growing things that teaches you patience. You have to understand what something needs, give it the right environment and then let it become what it\u2019s supposed to become. I think there\u2019s a lesson in that.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cReading wasn\u2019t a hobby. It was my first hustle,\u201d you write. Explain.As a kid, there were a lot of things I didn\u2019t have access to, but I had access to books. So if there was something I wanted to understand, I could go find a book about it. History, religion, business, science, people, how things worked. I could teach myself. That\u2019s why I call it my first hustle. A hustle is figuring out how to use what you have to get what you need. What I had was the ability to read, the curiosity to keep going and enough sense to understand that knowing something other people didn\u2019t know could be an advantage.Which childhood books and authors still stick with you?\u201cThe Swiss Family Robinson\u201d changed my life. There was something about the adventure of it, the ingenuity, this family having to figure out how to survive and create a whole world with what they had. As a kid, that stayed with me. \u201cThe Diary of Anne Frank\u201d was another one. I was young, but I understood that I was reading the words of somebody who had actually lived this. That made it different.And then there was Stephen King. At some point I had to admit: I respect how good you are, Mr. King, but I also enjoy sleeping.Your \u201cClub Shay Shay\u201d interview has been viewed more than 88 million times. The audience for a book is tiny by comparison. Why bother writing one?If you\u2019ve read seven or eight hundred autobiographies of other people, you just assume that at some point you have to add your name to that conversation. And as incredible as a hundred million views may be, that piece of work still belongs to the internet. We haven\u2019t had the internet for thousands of years. Books, we have. There\u2019s something different about putting your story in a form that can sit on a shelf, get passed from one person to another and still be there long after whatever platform is popular today is gone.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTHow in the world did you make an enemy of Dr. Seuss?By going around calling myself Katt in the Hat and making money doing it. Apparently, that will get you a cease-and-desist. At the time, I was just a young comedian trying to build a name for myself. I wasn\u2019t thinking about trademarks or intellectual property. I was thinking, \u201cKatt in the Hat \u2014 that\u2019s funny.\u201d They were thinking something entirely different.Have you ever gotten in trouble for reading a book?No, because I was allowed to read pretty much anything I wanted. There was even a period in my life when all I wanted was to find the list of forbidden books so I could read every one of them. Because if you tell me a book is forbidden, now I need to know why. What\u2019s in here? What kind of information could be so volatile that somebody decided I shouldn\u2019t have access to it?That\u2019s the great thing about books. They give you the freedom to find things out for yourself. And out of the thousands of books I\u2019ve read, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve read four bad books in my whole life. You\u2019re going to get something out of a book.What\u2019s the most interesting thing you learned from a book recently?The Torah: Everything.You\u2019re organizing a literary dinner party. 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