Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Source: You've Had Your Time, ch. 2, 1990.
-- Anthony Burgess, (Feb 25 1917-1993), English novelist, critic, man of letters; His fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combined wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre.