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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.

I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there's just that few days of frustration to get to that point.

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.