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I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.