Nobody can write history for more than five or six hours a day, especially when there is little hope of anyone ever reading it.

The latter might be expected from a man who will write more than 35 hours of television episodes this year.

In fact, he writes four hours a day, he said.

On weekends he takes a break and writes only eight hours daily.

I have written many hours into the night, but I cannot sleep even now.

If that happens I can write 10 to 12 hours.

"If you're a composer, how else can you write three or four solid hours of music a year and have it all played back?"

After that, writing eight hours a day, he completed at least two novels a year, almost all for Little, Brown.

He said that he didn't write "eight hours a day."

He has written approximately 200 hours of Television, mostly for children.