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I have a fear of being boring.

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.