“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”

“Turning a manuscript into a book is easy; getting the manuscript ready to become a book is hard.”

“An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.”

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”

“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”

“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.”