“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”

“I'm the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.”

“I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries. ~ Stephen King - If King is this then I guess I'm a chicken nugget.”

“Mis libros son el equivalente literario a un Big Mac con una gran ración de patatas fritas.”

“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part by examining the literary equivalent of navel-lint in each other's abstruse journals; ambitious, overeducated goofs who had lost touch with what books and reading were actually about and could be content to go on spinning straw into footnoted fool's gold for decades on end.”

“A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers cannot find or will not deign to use. I doubt if this is true. Nor do I believe the contention of some popular novelists... that thier success is based on literary merit -- that the public understands true greatness in ways the tight-a**ed, consumed-by-jealousy literary establishment cannot. This idea is ridiculous, a product of vanity and insecurity.”

“He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?”