To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.