Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication

I often used to say, the more parties there were for a book, the worse the book was.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.