Each Of My Books Has Taken Me

I Do Think That Part Of Literature's Job Is To Comment On And Participate In The Social Issues Of The Time.

My Son And I Discovered Terry Pratchett's Books Together, When He Was About Eleven Years Old. He'd Be Reading On His Own And Would Start To Laugh, And Then Eagerly Read The Passage Aloud To Me--and I'd Do The Same To Him! Pratchett's Books Became A Shared Source Of Delight For Us Back Then, And They Still Are Today.

If A Man Is Keeping An Idea To Himself, And That Idea Is Taken By Stealth Or Trickery-i Say It Is Stealing. But Once A Man Has Revealed His Idea To Others, It Is No Longer His Alone. It Belongs To The World.

All My Books Take A Long Time To Research. I Spend Several Months Researching Before I Start Writing, And In The Middle Of Writing I Often Have To Stop And Look Up Stuff. At My Local Library, I Am One Of The Best Customers! The Research Takes Several Months.

I Can Give Advice To Anyone Interested In Writing In One Word: Read! I Think It's Much More Important To Be A Reader Than To Be A Writer!