I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.
I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.