I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
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.
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.
I was a precocious reader.
I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.
I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.