I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.