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I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.