Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.