I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
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.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.