Found in the Bookstore

In flipping through the books in the writing section, I found the following quote in the opening pages of one book:

"As a beginning writer, likely one of the first things you did was read Aristotle's Poetics."

Really? It was?

Actually, one of the first things I did was read Mary Balogh's A Summer to Remember and Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrels. Um, I guess he won't be writing about those. I guess I didn't learn much from Balogh's brilliant use of deep emotions or Chase's uncanny creation of great characters. No, actually I was reading Aristotle. Funny, I don't remember that.

I still bought a stack of books today, though. Just not that one.