If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.
I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
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