“One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.”

“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool.”

“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”