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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

Oh you know, I've been writing a novel.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.