Author Emotions Quotes

When you get the ideas, that's a thrill; when you're writing the book and it's corning out well, that's a thrill; when you finish it and other people read it, that's a thrill. There are going to be reviews, of course; not everyone's going to love it. You feel sort of naked and vulnerable in a way. That's just a minor part of the process, really. If you can't take that part, you shouldn't be in the business. But there are so many joys to writing.

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.