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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

You can't legislate against stupidity.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.