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I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.