I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

I love twins stories.

We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.