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I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.