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

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

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

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

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.