On conversing with him, however, what is apparent is that John Saul did not take the easy path to literary success. Or, rather, if he is it's not something that's readily apparent. One shouldn't, from these slightly-snide-sounding-comments of mine, get the impression that Saul is a prima donna. "This," the 57-year-old writer says, indicating the palatial mobile accommodations that surround us, "is as close as you can get to a private rail car these days." I am left with the distinct impression that, if such conveyances were still available, Saul would be near the front of the line to get one. More accurately, he's on a book tour, driving around in his own rock-star-appropriate bus, complete with leather furnishings and glass shower enclosure. Though, to be honest, camping doesn't quite describe it. John Saul is camping when I catch up with him. So that was probably the most violent thing I've ever done, which I suspect is why because the public seems to have this unending thirst for the violence that I was unwilling to keep serving up. I didn't really like writing all the gore anyway. I thought that if kids that young were going to be reading me I was going to tone down the gore. I sort of toned down the violence after that. I think because it was the most violent thing I ever wrote.
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