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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.