My mother was always amused by those Sports Illustrated for Kids ads that asked, "How do you get your child to start reading?" My younger sister's severely dyslexic, but for me and my older sister, the question was, "How do you get them to stop and, say, clean their rooms?" My older sister was reading by the age of three or four, and she taught me not long after--since she's two years older than I, you do the math!

I read fast because that's the way I read. I've never made a concious effort to increase my reading speed. I have a hard time slowing it down; it's not a matter of savoring, as I'm savoring the books I plow through (depending on a whole list of factors) sometimes two and three in a day. (I don't have a lot else to do these days.) Besides, anything I miss the first time 'round, I'll pick up the next time I read it, or the time after that, right?

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"