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I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, that make them want to read just one more chapter. Books that have ideas threaded in amidst the thrilling bits, ideas that I hope linger even after people close the book.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.