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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!