Oh, books were very important to me as a child,
but mostly because they represented educational
and knowledge.
So anything in the household that represented
education and knowledge was important to my
parents, which was important to me.
So, their whole thing was education will take
you wherever you want to go, and allow you
to call your own shots, and you know, do what
you want to do.
So if you want to read comic books, that's
fine.
If you want to read magazines, that's fine.
If you want to, you know there were certain
things they wanted me to read more than others.
One that stands out was Time magazine.
My mom, as a kid, wanted me to really read
Time magazine.
She wanted me to be aware of the world, you
know, I always got a kick out of looking at
the images in National Geographic.
You know, like I said, I always loved comic
books.
We actually had a very large dictionary in
our house, one of those big, big monster dictionaries.
We had one of those.
So, whenever I asked her how to spell a word,
she would just point to the dictionary.
That increased you know my love for language
because you'd be looking up one word and inevitably
you come across 50 to 100 other words.
So when it came time to reading books, my
vocabulary was a lot more expansive so I was
able to go through books faster.
I was able to read books, you know, a little
higher level.
And to me it was…
I know a lot of authors talk about the magic
and the wonder and things.
To me it wasn't really about that per se,
it was just, I just loved the storytelling,
I just loved the everything about the book
itself.
And the education I was getting that was taking
me beyond the place I currently was.
And that was a really big important part to
me.
