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When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.