"I wrote in between films, I wrote wherever I was, I wrote on planes, I wrote at home, I wrote on vacation, I wrote in hotel rooms, I wrote on long weekends when I wasn't working," he says. He began writing the 448-page novel the following year. His collection of short stories, Uncommon Type, was published in 2017 and has sold more than 234,000 copies in the UK. Hanks, 66, says he has "always" written "in some form or another". "Sometimes you just have to have some other reason to spark your imagination," he explains. The long grind of shooting a film, he tells the BBC, means you can "just run out of curiosity for the job". The two-time Oscar winner is publishing The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, inspired by his own screen career. Tom Hanks says he has written his first novel as a "release from the never-ending pressure" of making movies. Hanks says he has "pulled every single one" of the moments of bad behaviour he describes in his novel
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