What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
Television is a young person's medium.
Writing is a solitary occupation.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
