The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.