It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.
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Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
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