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I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I love deliberately badly written books.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.