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For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.