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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.