“I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.”
“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”
“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.”
“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”
“Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”