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Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

If you're going to clutter up the world with more novels, you should do a little more than entertain people.