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I grew up in a house with very few books.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!

You need books to read and readers for books.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.