Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

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