When I was a child
I never said
"When I grow up
I want to be a writer."

Little did I know!

What a wonderful thing a book is!

This simple object can be taken anywhere, read anywhere: in a park, on a bus, in your home, under the bedclothes with a torch. 
Reading allows you to experience hundreds of sensations, emotions, ideas and descriptions, all within that small confined space: brain to brain, creating a unique dialogue between just you, the reader, the author and, paradoxically, silence...