Begged our teacher to keep reading

Comment:

What inspired you to start writing. You’re so good at it!You’re also good at the grammar I would think back then thats how they talked to! Someday I might become a writer if my teacher keeps making me practice!Shiloh is so inspiring! Shiloh is such a good book I ussally put other books down after the first chapter this one i wouldn’t stop We begged our teacher to keep reading! I usally hate reading but you made me love to do it now i realize how I can become smarter by reading!Thank you!

Phyllis replied

I began writing stories when I was very young because my parents read aloud to us every night, almost until we were old enough for high school.  Of course we could read ourselves, and did, but story time was just something we all loved, and my parents were good at it.  They read with such drama–changing their voices to match the characters—that it was almost like watching and listening to a play.  My father’s reading of the Mark Twain books was one of my favorite memories of growing up.