“I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.”

“Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.”

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”

“I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.”

“I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.”

“The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.”