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There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

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.

I've always been a big fan of books.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.