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There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.

If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

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

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.