Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book