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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

I will say that over the years I've been associated with things that were well-reviewed that I wasn't particularly crazy about, and I've been in things that didn't get very good reviews that I was rather fond of.

Writers are rememberers.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.