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I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

I've always been a big fan of books.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.