I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
If there is an audience out there for me, I want them to be surprised when the next book comes out.
I love to both give and receive very old books.
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.