I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really absolutely loved writing my first book.
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
Every book should have a romance.
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.