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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.

All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.