Can you still read the books and appreciate them after The Wheel of Time being your job for so long?
You know, I still read Jim’s—Robert Jordan’s books—and enjoy them, and I just recently picked up one and started reading through it. I don’t reread my own books usually unless it’s to reacquaint myself with certain things so that I can work on a sequel, because I will simply find too many things I want to change. This is the artist’s dilemma; you’ve got to let it be done; you can’t go back and continually tweak and revise and rewrite. At some point is just has to stand as a work of art, and reading your own books again…it’s too dangerous for me to do that. So I don’t reread mine, so I’ve never reread Gathering Storm , for instance. Now, I did read it fourteen times while we were revising it [laughter], so I do know that book pretty darn well, but I haven’t reread it since.
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