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I've never abandoned the novel.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

No two persons ever read the same book.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.