If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'
Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.
I like Al Purdy.
I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.
I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her stories helped shape my own internal world.
My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.
I read tons of comic books. My favourite is Grant Morrison, a Scottish comic writer.
