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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.