Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.