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Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Books come from within.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.