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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.