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Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.