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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me!

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.