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Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

I've always been a big fan of books.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

Films are always different from books.