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I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.

I've never written a book before.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.