I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
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 have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or so and write another dozen novels, probably some sort of imaginative literature... Never again another seven-volume saga.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.