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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.