Authors he recommended were Guy Gavriel Kay, CS Friedman and Ray Feist in the fantasy genre. Non-fantasy he recommended his major inspirator: Mark Twain. He wouldn’t give any non-recommended authors.
He said he reads about 300-400 books per year, which is a drop-off from what he normally read due to the high workload from the WoT books.
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