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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.