Well, when I think about when I was reading when I was kid I always think that I was like some kind of an amazing reader that started when he was two or something, but actually, apparently, my mother claims it took me a long time to learn how to read. But when I finally did, it just took over. And I was one of these people that would go somewhere but only be reading a book.
So it didn’t really matter that we were in Florida on vacation because I was in the backseat reading a book. And my family — they’re all big readers and they definitely supported me reading and we took a lot of family trips to the public library and of course I hung out in my school library all the time. But they were also supportive of stuff like comic books and Garfield Treasuries and that kind of stuff.
So I wasn’t always a big thick serious book reader that was never my thing. And when a book — when I hit passages, description, that’s often when I want to put it down. So my parents were very good about being like, “You want to read Beetle Bailey or Garfield? Go ahead.”