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And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

I spend about a year between novels.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

I don't write a novel every two years.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.