I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.