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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.