Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

I read very little contemporary anything.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.