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I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

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've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.