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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.

I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.