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"So far it's 43 books in 25 years."
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"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
Travel
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
Internet
"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
Conscience
"I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
Television
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
Work
"So far it's 43 books in 25 years."
Books
"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
Time
"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
Beginning
"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
Being
"It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"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."
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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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