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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.