What drives you to write?

What drives you to write?

Now what drives me to write, I think, is other books that I read consistently throughout my writing career and also the knowledge that the last book I wrote was not a perfect one so I want to rectify that with each book that I write, and knowing at the same time that every book will fail to some extent to achieve its goal. It's a quest to write, it's a quest to understand life I suppose, as we live it. And that's a mystery that connects writers with scientists, with all sorts of researchers.