Flaubert
&
Sylvester Stallone

"Yo. I'm astounded by people
who take 18 years to write something.
That's how long it took that guy to write
Madame Bovary."

"And was that even on the best-seller list?
No. It was a lousy book,
and it made a lousy movie."

--- Sylvester Stallone
As quoted by
Sara Peretsky
Booklist Magazine,
1 May 2003