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Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

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.