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It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!

I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.