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There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.