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I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.