Quotation of the day

...Every desert romance bearing the name E. M. Hull was actually written by Madame Bovary on a lark; Mein Kampf can claim credit for most of the Hallmark greeting cards printed between 1958 and 1967; Richard Nixon's entire oeuvre traces to a collective effort by the science-fiction slush pile at Ace Books.  Now, as you might imagine, upon finding a large readership through one particular work, the average book aspires to repeat its success.  Once The Wasteland and Other Poems generated its first Republican Party platform, it couldn't resist creating all the others.  After Waiting for Godot acquired a taste for writing Windows software documentation, there was no stopping it.

--James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder (5)