You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults.

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.