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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

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

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.