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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I want to write a best-selling book.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.