In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
If you write a written book, you're gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person, that person - I couldn't be bothered with it.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
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.
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
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