“I wanted to read a book with a good ending so I wrote one.”

“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.”

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”

“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ”

“In college I wrote trenchant, deep, profound epics. Then I grew up.”

“I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be”