My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.