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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.