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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.