I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.
When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that.
I came to comic books when I was about 15.
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff, probably from when I was, like, 14.
To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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.
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.
Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.
Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine
It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.
I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids.
When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC.
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
