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Then You Start Another Book And Suddenly The Galley Proofs Of The Last One Come In And You Have To Wrench Your Attention Away From What You're Writing And Try To Remember What You Were Thinking When You Wrote The Previous One.

Research Is A Lifelong Occupation So It's Hard To Factor It In, But I Reckon Most Books Take 5 Months From Start To Finish.

What I Mean By That Is That The Point Of Life, As I See It, Is Not To Write Books Or Scale Mountains Or Sail Oceans, But To Achieve Happiness, And Preferably An Unselfish Happiness.

And Yes, There's A Simplicity To Writing Books Because You're Not A Member Of A Team, So You Make All The Decisions Yourself Instead Of Deferring To A Committee.

Writing Is A Solitary Occupation.