Books by the authors above. Those include: The Poisonwood Bible, Everything is Illuminated, Bel Canto, The Speed of Dark, Howl, The Plague, The Fall. And, of course, A.A. Milne's The World of Pooh.

Anne Lamott's "Bird By Bird"

My bed, a coffee shop.

Milla Jovovitch in Resident Evil.

Albert Camus, Allen Ginsberg, Jasper Fforde, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Moon, Barbara Kingsolver.