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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.