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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.