If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!
I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.
It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
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