I like to read. Ever since I was little I was reading books and collecting them.
Does reading feel effortless and automatic to you?
It actually does. Maybe because I read a lot. 
Well the reading process requires continuous practice, development and refinement. If you read a lot, I'd imagine that your skills are quite sophisicated.
That's true and reading can develop your imagination as well which can contribute to bettering your creative thinking in the future.
Creative thinking and creativity are strange phenomena. It's difficult to understand how something new and valuable is formed as a child of the mind.
That is interesting to me too! I'm not sure of how the process works, human mind is complex.
Creativity seems to be psychologically and maybe physiolocially based in people. Trying to quantify it and separate it from general intelligence as a personality type has proven to be quite a mystery.
Yes it seems that modern science still hasn't come up with explanation of some mind processes even though there is a lot of research.
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology, nature, and relationship of the mind to the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigm issue in philosophy of mind, although other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness, and the nature of particular mental states. Aspects of the mind that are studied include mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness, the ontology of the mind, the nature of thought, and the relationship of the mind
than it takes to toll my passing bell.
"Beloved": Well, then I will read your lines, and grieve while reading them.
"Poet": Nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it, if that memory would cause you grief.
"Beloved": Then I will, from love, mention your name to others.
"Poet": No, do not rehearse my name, but let your love for me cease when me life does