I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.
I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
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.
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.
Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.