I can’t remember much before the age of eleven, I think I blocked out the lot, but what I do remember is that I always, like ALWAYS was reading.

So in a way I became all those other characters every day.

I read everything that was available to me, from the extensive library of my dad’s, the public library, the school’s library and beyond. I swallowed books. It started at the age where my father would tell stories, using a book, and me reading that story at a very early age when most kids couldn’t read, only to find out that if they put the book upside down I would read it too. I just had memorized the story . Reading became a refuge place for me, undisturbed in my own world. I loved reading!