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When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.