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One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.

I am a sucker for jackets!

I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

I'm obsessed with jackets.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

I don't like glossy covers.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.