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The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back.

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.