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I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.