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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

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 have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

I'm obsessed with books.

'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other studies. I would go to the library even on nice warm weekends and just lock myself up. I think that was the first time that I felt transformed by a book.