![]() ![]() The advice has been not to do that, not to mix genres, not to try different kinds of storytelling, and I understand that. It’s a formula-driven business-if you’ve written one book about a bricklayer, they want you to write 1,000 books about a bricklayer-but I’m constantly changing things up. If I wrote the same book every time, which is what publishers prefer you to do, I would go profoundly nuts. So there’s never been a time when you’ve thought, I can’t keep doing this anymore? I’ve never stopped being excited about books and the potential of them. I realized that you can make what you want of life, and I don’t think I’ve ever stopped feeling that way. ![]() And that was plenty of motivation to change my destiny. They showed me the level of success the world offered. Books were both an escape and a lesson that other lives were different. Koontz: It goes back to what books meant to me when I was young. HBR: Where do you find your creative energy and stamina? ![]()
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