It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today

One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.