I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.