To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.
There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.