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I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

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.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.

I did not want to write just another business book.

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.