We asked our authors from around the world to share their thoughts on why they write, why they read, and the books that have influenced them.
Here’s what they had to say.
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Mark Mainz
I write because I love to read. I love the way a good book can worm its way into my brain and make the characters and the world they inhabit real. And the thought that I can do that too—create people and places that will inhabit thousands of other brains—is a heady one. That readers all over the world will let me climb inside their heads and play with the contents . . . Now that’s a rush. Plus I get to spend most days in my pyjamas, playing make-believe with people who don’t exist and my cat (who does).
