My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.
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.
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
More than reading - much more than reading, in fact - I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
My mother taught me to read.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.