Do you read other contemporary fantasy?
Sure. Gavriel Kay, J. V. Jones, Robin Hobb and Tad Williams, as long as he’s not writing about animals. C. S. Friedman. I read a great many people and a lot of books that aren’t fantasy, I must say. I realize that no more than probably fifteen percent of what I read is fantasy or science fiction. Maybe ten.
You shouldn’t do any of that reading yet, just keep writing!
Straight truth here. Straight truth here. I have to, I have to. Because if I don’t read somebody else in the evening and get my mind uncoupled from the work, I lay down and spend the night just on the edge of going to sleep, thinking, “All right, a couple more minutes I’ll be dozing off, I really feel like hell here.” And my mind is worried and buzzing and clicking and working on the story, then it gets light outside and I haven’t been to sleep. And the next day if I don’t do it, the same thing happens—no sleep. And by three or four days of this I’m beginning to feel a little groggy and I’m beginning to stare at the page and realize I’ve lost the train of thought in the middle of the sentence. So if you will excuse me, I’m gonna read other people!
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