ERIC YANG: "I just read a lot of things, like the atlas,the Internet,magazines, maps,travel guide books.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

"This is Derek and I have another son,Dillon. I basically looked through baby books and just found names that I thought were a little bit different.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

"As long as I can remember, it was animals,animals. Even before I could talk, I was watching earthworms and things, reading Doctor Doolittle books, wanting to learn the language of animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

"Sometimes I look for inspiration in professional books.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Still,she says her books reflect the Nancy Drew stories that she read as a child: "Things that I read as a kid keep cropping up in my own work whether I realize it or not.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"I read books like Freud's book on the analysis of dreams but I realized this is Chris Nolan's dream world.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

I think that's part of the value of these books, that they're universal in character."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

They don't print books. I have had this experience - a publisher received paper on which to print my work two years ago, but hasn't printed it yet."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

I read a lot of books.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15