Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.
I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.
I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
