I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.