It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.
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With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.
Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.
The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
I don't write the same book twice.
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
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