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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.

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.