The writer Randy Susan Meyers recalls her childhood:
What is the relationship between reader and writer? Lord knows that I know the reader side well -- I've been a reader for far more hours of my life than I've been a writer. Starting at age seven, I made twice-weekly trips to the Kensington branch of the Brooklyn library nearest my home, where I'd always check out the maximum number of books allowed. Writers were gods to me. Libraries were the purveyors of that which I needed for sustenance. Food. Shelter. Books. Those were my life's priorities....