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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

My books have all generated controversy.

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.