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I read several books at one time.

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.

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.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

I often reread books I have written.