When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books.

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

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