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My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.