Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

I don't read books.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.