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I cry at the end of every book.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.