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I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.