I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.