It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

I don't watch a lot of television.

I watch a lot of television. I always have.

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.