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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

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.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.