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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.”