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Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.