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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.'

I read my books aloud before they were published.