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I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.