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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.