As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in a book was to be slightly wacky, a little greedy and ultimately slothful. There was no value. You couldn't make money from reading a book. A book did not clean bathrooms and waxed floors. It did not put the garden in. You couldn't have a conversation while reading. It was arrogant and alienated others. In short, those who read were wasteful and haughty and incapable of living in the real world. They were dreamers.

As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.