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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see.

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.