Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books. It's really rewarding to think that they can grow up reading my books at all the different levels.
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
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