I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
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The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
I grew up in a house with very few books.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.