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I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I like working in children's books because it gives rise to such a variety of jobs. One month it may be a picture book, the next a retelling, the next a play, a short story or the start of the next novel.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

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

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.