How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.
You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.