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For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

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.

I don't write a novel every two years.

Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little... unjust.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

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

I spend about a year between novels.