“A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.”

“To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

“In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.”

“Reading "For One More Day". Nothing interesting happened yet. Exciting to keep reading.”

“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”