"I always loved nonfiction as much as fiction, especially manuals. I don't remember what it was called but there was a book about how to rescue wounded animals and nurse them back to health that I checked out of the library once a week for a few years."
"When I was about 12 I read a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen and it blew my mind. There was a lot about the colonisation of the American continent that I learned for the first time and found horrifying."
"I used to think stories were just diversions. I didn't understand how to write a story until I read Robert McKee's Story, Blake Snyder's Save the Cat! and Dara Marks's Inside Story. Stories are ideas about how to live."
"Those writers all have such strong voices, doing things with language that I didn't think were possible to do. They made me think, Oh man, I wish I could write like that."
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