I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.
More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.