Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
I always love writing about children.
You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.