The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If he hasn't stolen my heart from the previous hero, I know the book isn't right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.
There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.
There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.
I've always loved the physical book and remain committed to it.
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.