I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.