“Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.”

“It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.”

“Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ”

“To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.”

“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.”

“When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.”

“This is not my favorite way to wake up. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.”