Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.

Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."

She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

I think that people read Harry Potter because it's a great story, not because they like reading books about casting spells and flying broomsticks, ... It's the story, not the theme.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.