I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.
I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.