“I reads every chance I can gets.”

“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”

“If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.”

“I had been given a wonderful opportunity to be a novelist — a chance you just don't get every day.”

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. ”

“I don't give any book a big chance. If it isn't interesting from the get-go, I let go. Sure I paid for the book, but I don't have to pay more in my time to read a book that bores me. If I don't enjoy reading it, why read it? For my original investment in the book? That's silly.”