Inspiration to write comes from reading

I can’t think of a more obvious way to be inspired to write than to love reading. Even if you have a story to tell, you must still need inspiration of how to tell that story?

My mother encouraged me to read, and read I did. I love to read, I read every day and I cannot sleep if I do not read myself to sleep.

As a child, I read classics and children’s books from the school library. My mother had her head in a book a lot of the time when I was growing up and she mainly read crime fiction, c...