When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.
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Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.
The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.
I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
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