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You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.