In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see?

I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

Every year I tell myself that I’m not going to read any reviews and then I do. We’re all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?