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It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.