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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.