“i think anyone who loves good and true stories you have to read g-spot and you will not want to put it down and you might want to read it again.”

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”

“I finally figured out that it doesn't matter what other people want to read. It matters what you want to write. You write the story that you would want to read, and then fans will come. If you love what you write, others will too.”

“For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”