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One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

I write books to find out about things.