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I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

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

I always want to write something better than the last book.

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.