Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
I'm an avid biography reader.
I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.
I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.
I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.
I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.
I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
I'm kind of like a tween. I've read all 'Hunger Games' books in three days.
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
Thomas Young was born in 1731 in upstate New York. The child of impoverished Irish immigrants, he grew up in a log cabin without the benefit of a formal education. But he was an avid reader who began collecting books at a young age and eventually amassed one of the finest personal libraries in New England.
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.
I was never without a book in my hand.
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
I've always been a voracious reader.
Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.
I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.
I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
