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So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

I think most new writers are better off going with traditional publishers who will actually, at a minimum, edit your work, package it well, and market it for you.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.