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I collect books - a lot of books.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.