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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.