Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
I never met a word I didn't love
I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music.
I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.
Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.
I grew up with a love of words.
I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.
I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I'd remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.
I love words; I love poetry.
