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I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

I don't write a novel every two years.

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.