This is why, when he’s on, no-one beats Mike Kinsley for making you smile in exactly the right way:
Though hardly scientific, this tended to confirm my suspicion that people like buying books more than they like reading them. And of course, in the famous formulation (credited to Gloria Steinem, among others), writers don’t like writing-they like having written. They like having written under the impression that this means they will be read. The whole book thing is thus based on mutual misunderstanding.
The Dish 