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I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.