Then Walgreens wanted to charge my wife $140 for a prescription. “Once you’ve put one of his books down, you simply can’t pick it up again.” (Mark Twain talking about Henry James).Then I discovered Walgreens had the same product OTC for $13.49 for 4 months and the pharmacist nor his employees told me. “The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.” (Herman Wouk) “What would I do if I had only six months left to live? I’d type faster.” (Isaac Asimov) “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” (Groucho Marx) “The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.” (Tom Clancy) “My reputation grows with every failure.” (George Bernard Shaw) “The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.” (TS Eliot) “They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.” (Garrison Keilor) “In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.” (Phyllis McGinley) “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet but his books were read.” (Hilliare Belloc) “Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” (Mark Twain) “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers.” (Daniel J. “This is the sixth book I’ve written, which isn’t bad for a guy who’s only read two.” (George Burns) “What’s another word for thesaurus?” (Steven Wright) Without further delay from the fun, here they are: On this last day of 2013, I think the best use of this space is to offer up my favorite quotes related to books, writing or from authors.
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