I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.
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I really try to focus on my books and readers.
I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.
The thing I'm always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you've finished, it still pops back into your head.
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.
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.