I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.