NEW YORK (AP) – Who says kids don’t read? Not Taylor Swift.
The superstar made a stop Tuesday night on her busy tour promoting her new album to share her passion for reading and writing with a gaggle of New York City public school kids – and 100 more giggling on computer screens via Skype from classrooms in Michigan and California.
Swift, whose “1989” was expected to debut at No. 1 next week, is a lifelong lover of books and writing, particularly songwriting, but she told The Associated Press after chatting with the tweens and teens at Scholastic that she isn’t ruling out other writing projects.
She’s already an unpublished novelist! At 13 or 14, she wrote a 400-page book based on her life and friends, whom she had left behind during a summer away with her family.
“But since then, I’ve discovered music and that’s the form of writing that inspires me the most. It’s not to say that I wouldn’t expand the mediums and the ways that I choose to write,” Swift said. “What if I end up writing a script or a book, or a book of poetry or something? That would be so amazing. I would love to see that happen.”