Krista Bremer is the author of "My Accidental Jihad: A Memoir" and editor at The Sun. She shares with listeners of The Spine how she became a reader (including "the thrill of browsing" she still experiences at the library), how her reading informs and affects her writing, and her all-time favorite book (by Virginia Woolf).

KEY QUOTES:

About the difference between fiction and nonfiction: "Fiction can be truer than nonfiction. There are the facts of what happened, and then there are the hard truths of the human condition."

About today's readers: "Our most endangered resource is our undivided attention."

About Toni Morrison's: "It broke open language in order to recover its power."