A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.