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If you're going to clutter up the world with more novels, you should do a little more than entertain people.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

I don't very often read novels.

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books.