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It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made it happen. There's been a lot of those books that didn't really interest me much.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.