I think the good news is always: a book worth reading has come out. I also think that for real readers, who wrote it isn39;t important. I think that readers of a good book hope at most that the author of a good book will continue to work conscientiously and make other good books. I think, finally, that even the authors of the classics are only a pile of dead letters alongside the life that flares up in their pages as soon as one begins to read them. That39;s all. To put it another way: even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina.