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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.