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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, that make them want to read just one more chapter. Books that have ideas threaded in amidst the thrilling bits, ideas that I hope linger even after people close the book.

I want to write a best-selling book.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.