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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.

The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

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 think bookstore browsing will become more cherished as time goes on because it can't be replicated virtually.