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Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.