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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

There are a lot of wonderful books out there that aren't marketed properly, and readers who might love them never even know they exist.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

I love deliberately badly written books.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.