The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.
Basbanes makes you love books.
I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.
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