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Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.