It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
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.
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
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