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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.