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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

I often reread books I have written.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.