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I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose.

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.