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My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.