Eating a good book

I just got back from OSU, where I attended a reading by Tobias Wolf. After, someone in the audience asked him about Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones), who had been one of his students years ago at Syracuse. He made reference to her memoir, Lucky, which I haven't read. So when I got home I Googled it to find out more and landed on a 2002 Powell's Books interview with her.

Near the end of the interview, she said this about reading, and BLAMMO! It struck me that I'd never heard anyone besides me express the hunger for reading in terms of food. Here's Alice:

I actually get a physical need to read. I read the way other people overeat. I read way too fast, then it's over and I'm moaning, Ugh, I shouldn't have read the whole thing. But I read obsessively. Even if I'm working on my own stuff I feel a hunger come for reading.

If you’re interested in reading the entire interview, it’s here:
http://www.powells.com/authors/sebold.html.