Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.
Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.
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.
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.