There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.
I love deliberately badly written books.
I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.