Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

Everybody Loves Raymond.