You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there.
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
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.
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.