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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

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.

I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to people. You've got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.