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I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.