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I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'