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So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

I read several books at one time.