I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
I read everything and anything. I love books.
I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.