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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off
myself.
- Oscar Levant
Plato was a bore.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
- Leo Tolstoy
Hemingway was a jerk.
- Harold Robbins
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear
life on a sinking ship.
- Edmund Wilson, on Evelyn Waugh
A dirty man with opium-glazed eyes and rat-taily hair.
- Lady Frederick Cavendish, on Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with
the ability to write.
- A. E. Housman
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping
rabbits.
- Edith Sitwell
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
- Steven Wright
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
- Lillian Hellman
I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In
a moment it shall be behind me.
- Max Reger in a letter to critic Rudolph Louis
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think that university stifles writers. My
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
- Flannery O'Connor
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to
read.
- Mark Twain
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
- Samuel Johnson
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty
neck.
- Eli Wallach
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting
together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
- George Bernard Shaw
Jeffery Archer is proof of the proposition that in each of us lurks a bad novel.
- Julian Critchley
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library
out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain
The House Beautiful is The Play Lousy.
- Dorothy Parker, on the play 'The House Beautiful'
Tonstant weader fwowed up.
- Dorothy Parker, on A.A. Milne's 'House at Pooh Corner'
This is either a forgery or a damn clever original.
- Frank Sullivan
God created the poet, then took a handful of the rubbish that left and made
three critics.
- T.J. Thomas
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
- Brendan Behan, asked what was the message in one of his plays |
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