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I spend about a year between novels.

I don't write a novel every two years.

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.