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I read my books aloud before they were published.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.

I love to read aloud.

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

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

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.