The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
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The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.
I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?
I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
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