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Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.