It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite catches ….

My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front o….

I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Mar….

I'm constantly being visually stimulated..

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents al….

I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go i….

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single mo….

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction..

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) ….

I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody outside the family would weigh in. And then….

Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite boo….

I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the other day. These peo….

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the hea….

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading..

Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice..

What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experienc….

I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring..

We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, ci….

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life..

If you're smiling , you're happy out..

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something..