One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and….

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in….

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways..

For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear foc….

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose..

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves..

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long e….

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong wit….

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean..

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets….

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have t….

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining..

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book..

You can only control what you can control..

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a ne….