But this takes time. Besides, the writer needs the services of other writers. One's life experience is not enough. A writer enriches his or her life with the experience of other writers, which means with books. Weldon believes that, while some people are obsessive about cinema, films are just a lazy reader's way of getting a story into the head.
Films drift out again so fast.
She then goes on to trace her love of reading, which started when she was three, with Mumfie the Elephant, and developed with books like those of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. She became obsessed with reading. She read walking to school, at the dinner table, in bed with a torch. But all the time, producing one novel after another, she kept reading. Myths changed, however.