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A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

A book is a book is a book.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.