It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.
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