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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.