Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.
My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.
Trees are your best antiques.
I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.
I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.