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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.

I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive.

I think bookstore browsing will become more cherished as time goes on because it can't be replicated virtually.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.