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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