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I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

My novels are all ideas.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.