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I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.