I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.
I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
Great books are rare.
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.