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You can't die with an unfinished book.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.