I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.
I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt that way about fairy tales. They are bloody and scary, but so is life.
What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.
I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.
One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."
I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.
I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.
Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.
I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.
I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.
Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.
I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.
I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.
My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
I'm a really eclectic reader.
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.
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