“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”
“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.”
“I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.”
“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”
“I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.”
“When I can’t write I read. When I can’t read I sleep. And when I can’t sleep I write.”