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Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to screen and it's not exactly what was in my head or what I was imagining it should be.

Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

Will the reader turn the page?

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

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.