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If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.