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I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

I collect books - a lot of books.