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A book is either autobiography or a novel.

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere.

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.