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I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

I don't write books inadvertently.

I write books to find out about things.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.