Your favorite writer.

Favorite writer?

Well, I've got a LOT of them. First of all, there's J.K. Rowling. When I first read her work, back when I was five, my impression was, "Wow, this is the first time in two years I've actually read something at my level!" I kept reading and growing, and it just kept getting better. The newest book was always a higher reading level than the one before it, so I felt like the series was growing along with me. Then, finally, Deathly Hallows was perfect. It was the story I'd always wanted to read but never really known it. It was more amazing than I can describe.

Stephenie Meyer. Twilight changed a lot about my perspective on life. It was another one of those Aha moments: my first-ever romantic novel. Only after reading it was I able to actually write a love scene. (Why did you think the hero of the Saga of Traitor and Betrayed Part 1 could not fall in love? I wrote the groundwork for that story before Twilight was published.) And it changed me in another way, too: I noticed that a lot of the phrases she used in the novel sounded downright... familiar. It was the first time I ever read a published book of more than six pages in which the characters talked the same way as I.

Erin Hunter. I absolutely agree with what Charon wrote about her above, and would like to add that the thing that struck me most about her books, the first time I read Into the Wild, was that it seemed almost complex enough to be two books. It just kept going and going and going after a lot of books would have said the storyline was done. Sadly, she seems to be losing that knack; she now has to take three books to say what she used to be able to do in half of one.

William Shakespeare. Quotable, timeless, poetic, honest, dreamy, insightful... what's not to like? Maybe the reason we still love him after four hundred years is because he still says all the things we used to know, but take too much for granted to really see, and all the things that we'd like to be able to say, more beautifully than most people could dream of achieving.

There are many more, but by this time I am in serious debt of sleep. To quote Shakespeare, "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow." (From Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene I)