My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?
Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.
I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.
Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back.
