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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

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

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.