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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.