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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

I write books to find out about things.

I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

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

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.