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There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

I love deliberately badly written books.

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.