Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.