Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
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Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
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.
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
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