A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

Life should be embraced like a lover.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".