Quote

It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.