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Like most authors, I also love to read.

Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.