“When I start a book I think about all those cliches and try to come up with something different. Unfortunately, this often gets me in trouble because I get a lot of complaints that my books aren’t the same. I didn’t know what they meant until one day I walked into a Cracker Barrel and had a thought. What if the waitress said, “We’re serving sushi today?” I wouldn’t like it so I understand that readers want the author to write the same way book after book. But I can’t do that. I would lie down and never get up out of sheer boredom.”