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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.

When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.