I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.
Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
I can write a book in probably three months.
It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.