![]() It’s more difficult to market a book that’s not like the book that everybody bought and enjoyed before. 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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