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There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

I don't very often read novels.

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

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.

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.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

I often reread books I have written.