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I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.