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I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.