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With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.