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I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.