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Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

I suppose books are my real passion in life.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.