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I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I always have the impression that I write the same book.