Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.
The thing I'm always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you've finished, it still pops back into your head.
I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.
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.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.