My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.
I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.
Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.