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.
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What I did do a lot as a child was read, and I particularly remember reading all the 'Hardy Boys' books, a set of history books called the 'Landmark Books,' and a series of science books called the 'All About Books.'
When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.
I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.