Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Lethal weapon?

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Rose Macaulay

Friday, June 3, 2011

Light weight reading?

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
 

Alfred Hitchcock

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

It's all in your mind?

That's not writing, that's typing.

Truman Capote

Thursday, August 5, 2010

No joke

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. 

Alfred North Whitehead

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Transportation?

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

Walker Percy

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The road to hell ....

Is paved with adverbs.

Stephen King

Friday, September 11, 2009

Hard at work

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

William Faulkner

Monday, August 24, 2009

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of....

but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Strange Convergence = Jane Austen + Zombies

Seth Grahame-Smith's mashup combining Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with elements of modern zombie fiction. Peruse the first three chapters or get the details.
 
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