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I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

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'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.