It's truly a thrill to bring characters to life, and to illuminate some of life's big questions through metaphor and story. But at the same time, it's also the most joyous labor I've ever done. It's harder than running a business, harder than building a log cabin, harder than leading a wilderness trek up some mountain. Now, that's not to say it's been easy! For example, I have discovered that writing books is the hardest work I've ever done. Since that big decision, I haven't had one single millisecond of regret.
And from that perspective, the risk of trying to write and failing completely-a real possibility was far less frightening than the risk of growing old and never following my dream of being a writer. All I knew was that life is too short not to follow your passions, whatever the risks. My business partners all thought I was crazy-after all, who in his right mind would leave a successful business to try to write books in some attic in Colorado? Well, I guess I just wasn't in my right mind. When I made my decision to leave my business and try to write full time, I knew nothing about the future except that my passion for writing was strong enough that I simply had to give it a try.
In the late 1980s, after graduating from Princeton, fulfilling a Rhodes Scholarship, and spending a year hiking in Asia and Africa, you left New York City and your position as president of a venture capital firm and moved home, to Colorado, to pursue writing as a career.ĭid you know, then, that you'd be happy as a writer? Have you experienced any major surprises about writing-or about yourself as a writer, in the years since you decided to write full time?
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