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It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

My books have all generated controversy.