The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.