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I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.