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Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.