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I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.