"I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."
~ Mark Twain
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy ~ and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
~ Stephen King
"I'm a publisher because it's a cover for my indulgence. I love to read all day. But I come from nice Puritan stock, and I grew up believing that you have to work all day, so I made reading my work."
~ Ann Getty
"I read books like mad, but I am careful not to let anything I read influence me."
~ Michael Caine
"I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all."
~ W. Somerset Maugham
"I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whichever end I like best."
~ Gracie Allen
~ True Confessions, Edited by Jon Winokur, Penguin, 1992
