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

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

Reading is a huge part of life.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I had a lot of reading problems growing up.

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.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.