I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.