I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.
I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.
No one ever really read to me as a child.
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.
I never wrote my books especially for children.