“Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.”