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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.