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Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.