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I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

I make music, and if people like it, they like it, and some people won't.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.