Catherine Philp talks to Christopher Paolini for the Times. It's a fascinating article, even if you're not a fan of Eragon and Eldest. Here's a quote:

• "It has been a long time since Paolini picked up the book. 'Reading Eragon is torture for me. It’s not because I think it’s a bad book, but if I were to sit down now and pick a story to write, I wouldn’t pick Eragon’s story any more. At that age, that was the story I wanted to tell, the coming-of-age story. It was what I was living. Now I’m in a different place in my life.'”