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I don't very often read novels.

I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.