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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

The thing I'm always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you've finished, it still pops back into your head.

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.

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.