I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I often reread books I have written.
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.