“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never
got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing
room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the
landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern
attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents'
interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books
most emphatically not. Nothing was forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy
afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same
certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field
has of finding a new blade of grass.” --CS LEWIS
My dad got me hooked to books--reading to me most nights. I learned to read early--before I entered Kindergarten--and haven't stopped. I have read thousands of books. Some good, bad, ugly...some GREAT and life-changing.
*I pray at the core of my books is the Bible--and that who I am today is ruled by that book.
In fiction:
- I love anything by Jane Austen--the quirky people and dialogue and actions have really influenced my fiction writing. I love snappy, quick, dialogue. Zinger!
- Terry Brooks and the Shannara series (which is one of the first books I remember my dad reading to me), Chronicles of Narnia, and Lord of the Rings have influenced my love of fantasy.
