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As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.